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...Germany single issues were frequently banned from the newsstands. Last May Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler signed an order banning all future issues of TIME from Germany (TIME, May 29). The week before, TIME had carried Herr Himmler's picture on its cover, had chronicled his career. Newsstand circulation of the magazine amounted to about 75 copies...
HENRY, KING OF FRANCE-Heinrich Mann-Knopf...
...dignified Thomas Mann shinnied self-consciously down the Ivory Tower and announced that a writer's business is to be political as well as literary. Elder Brother Heinrich Mann might have snickered in his lush Van Dyke beard, for Brother Thomas was only preaching what Brother Heinrich has spent a lifetime practising. For some 40 of his 68 years he has been writing a series of historical novels which constitutes a political and sociological record of the German people from Kaiserdom to "folkdom." If there is no Magic Mountain among his collected works, Brother Heinrich might well claim that...
...whatever chips they prefer. Some readers will find that Henry's intriguing enemies, disgruntled Protestants, priests, Jesuits, Spaniards, resemble Nazis; others will be reminded of Communists. Fussed historians will throw up their hands at the free-&-easy handling of history. But few will deny that thoroughgoing German Heinrich Mann, in seasoning this lump of historical data into a right royal and highly spiced narrative, has produced, if not a first-rate novel, a monster tour de force...
Czech Government officials jittered -though the population stayed calm - when Heinrich Himmler, dread chief of all Nazi police, suddenly appeared in Prague. Reasons given for Herr Himmler's visit were several and varied. Some said he was there to clean up the messy shooting at Kladno of a German policeman; others said that the Nazis were preparing to abolish the protectorate, at least take over its police. Nazis denied both rumors, said Police Chief Himmler was in Prague for "a brief inspection tour." By week's end Himmler was back in Berlin...