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...Armstrongs, served its country splendidly when Manchuria was flaming brightest. It also served China excellently. In 1930 China, the world's largest importer of arms, bought almost 40 percent of its war material from Japan. The European armament makers who were supplying this trade found the free port of Hamburg convenient; during one famous week in 1932 there cleared from Hamburg two ships loaded with dynamite, grenades, and airplane parts; another with 1,000 cases of explosives, another with 1,700 cases of ammunition, and still another, brining up a triumphal rear, with 100,000,000 francs' worth of French...
...Reich. About the mildest sentence the People's Court can inflict is one month in jail for publishers, printers or booksellers who make, distribute or keep in stock, even unwittingly, treasonable publications. The People's Court was not organized in time last week to handle the 48 Hamburg Communists, members of the so-called "Red Navy" who conducted periodical raids on the Red Eagle Hotel, Nazi headquarters in Hamburg, during 1932 and 1933. A summary court sentenced eight of them to death, 33 up to 15 years in jail, six to three years. Somehow one of the defendants...
...March 12 the Optimist, a tiny German freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west...
...battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated 600 German newspapers. In Hamburg alone four papers gave up last week. And in Berlin "Auntie Voss" expired too, with one last muffled peep...
...suddenly wanted to know more about this stately youthful person who could act as well as sing. During her first years in opera her fa ther never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures...