Word: freiburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West is unthinkable. Perhaps the day will come when France will begin to bombard Saarbrücken. German artillery will in turn lay Mulhouse in ruins. France will retaliate by bombarding Karlsruhe and Germany in her turn will shell Strasbourg. Then the French artillery will fire at Freiburg and the German at Colmar or Schlettstadt. Long-range guns will then be set up and from both sides will strike deeper and deeper and whatever cannot be reached by long-distance guns will be destroyed from the air. . . . One day there will again be a frontier between Germany and France...
...Freiburg, Germany...
...American medical student at the University in Freiburg I come in contact every day with Germans. Although our conversation concerns principally subjects connected with medicine, it sometimes drifts to politics. Naturally I should like to be able to defend my country's democratic ideals, especially now in regard to the Jewish question. The reason why I cannot is adequately illustrated by a recent article in TIME (Dec. 5): A young man, not a whole lot older than Grynszpan, was said to have committed a crime. The only witness was an elderly lady-the very lady whose life and property...
Therefore, of the $9,849,697 which Mr. Fosdick last year distributed for the Rockefeller Foundation, no Italian, Japanese or Russian institution received a cent. In Germany the only beneficiary was the University of Freiburg, which received $19,600. But English institutions received $671,980; French $216,800; Scandinavian and Finnish $191,225. To help the Chinese Government "make over a medieval society in terms of modern knowledge," the Rockefeller Foundation last year allotted $843,875. But "the work, the devotion, the resources, the strategic plans of Chinese leaders for a better China, have disappeared in an almost unprecedented cataclysm...
...best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace and clothed the singers in costumes out of Edmond Dulac...