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...this Nazi "German Christians" rejoiced. Evangelical Christians denounced "outrage upon outrage" and President von Hindenburg wrote to Chancellor Hitler: "From the continuance, let alone the exacerbation, of these conditions the gravest damage must result to our people and Fatherland as well as injury to national unity. I therefore feel myself obligated to God and my conscience to do everything in my power to avert such damage...
...powers will be faced with the gravest condition if Germany leaves the Geneva conference for the second time. ... I think-and I am speaking without consultation with my colleagues-that the juridical result of this would be that Germany would be bound by the Treaty of Versailles, and an attempt to arm would be a breach of the Treaty. This would bring into operation the sanctions which the Treaty provides...
...quite probable, the Attorney General is inspired by the second of these two motives, he may seem to be not only within the law but justified in his action. There is the gravest doubt, however, that the law was originally intended to exclude the vacation periods from the calculation. From 1917 until this present action the interpretation of the courts has favored their inclusion. But aside from this aspect, it is more important to note the vital stupidity inherent in the presumption that the caliber of a man's medical training can be even partially classified by measuring the number...
Design For Living, which some spectators may find a bit decadent in spots, is a worthy successor to, if not an entertaining equal of, the playwright's previous Private Lives. Its deficiency is in the kind of hysterical laughter which in Private Lives fairly convulsed the gravest sophisticate and exalted Noel Coward to the front rank of fun-makers...
Since Jugoslavia is France's Man Friday in Balkan politics and since Jugoslavia adjoins Albania it was the Jugoslav Minister in London who rushed around to the British Foreign Office last week, filed excited warning that "the Jugoslavian Royal Government views with gravest concern the situation now arising in the Balkans due to Italian policy...