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...Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...Welles's word "temporary" neatly conveyed Mr. Roosevelt's wishful conviction that Herr Hitler's ultimate downfall is sure. The statement as a whole was preliminary notice, to be more thoroughly and forcefully worded this week, that the U. S. did not and would not soon recognize Czecho-Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt...
Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik...
Bruno Walter, another exile from Germany, now an "honorary citizen" of France, arrived in Manhattan last week after a crossing that was bumpier than anything by Stravinsky. On his arrival he told reporters a story: Long before Herr Walter changed his residence for political reasons, he conducted a series of Munich concerts attended by a music-lover who last week changed his name for religious reasons, Eugenio Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered...
Shortly before she left Germany, she received a visit from two Hitler Youths, ardent Nazis of the year before. They said they wanted to ski over into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...