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Based upon evidence collected toward the end of last year by the Interallied Military Commission of Control (of German armaments), which the Germans call "the Spy Commission," the Allied Governments charged defaults in the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty, ordered the Reich to dissolve the German General Staff (forbidden by the Treaty), to reduce the Army to 100,000 men (the number permitted by the Treaty), to stop recruiting men on short service enlistments (according to the Treaty, enlistments should be for twelve years), to reduce the Green Police to 150,000 (the number permitted in 1920), to cease...
...SPRING FLIGHT-Lee J. Smits-Knopf ($2.50). When geese went north in the night, when lurid shafts of light played in a forbidden alley, when girls looked longingly at his curly, black hair, Kenneth Farr of the Middle West could not help feeling that there was more in life than his mother had told him about between family prayers. When he grew older and found he was right, he pitied himself for not having been told; posed alternately as "misunderstood" and "no good." As is usual in such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage...
...seemed likely to debate alone. The issue of the trial as taken by the defense was not to be the futile question: "Is evolution true?" but: "Can the human mind be limited by law in its inquiry after truth? May freedom of teaching and freedom of learning be forbidden...
...days all Berlin had been talking of nothing else but the entry of General feldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, President-elect, into the capital. The Monarchists prepared to give him a royal welcome, not omitting renditions of Fredericus Rev, a martial Monarchial anthem (later forbidden). Republicans boycotted the proceeding. Communists threatened to stage counterdemonstrations (later forbidden). Finally, der Tag arrived. Chancellor Hans Luther, with his 10-year-old daughter, motored from the Chancellery to the railway station. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Monarchists, lined the streets. All Berlin, or so it seemed, was draped in the old Imperial colors...
...came quite suddenly and un-expectedly. Although she had been troubled somewhat by recurrent internal attacks, and indeed had been forbidden by her physician to go abroad to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford as she had planned to do this summer, there had been no intimations that her condition was in any way fatal...