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...punctilious German. For civilians last week formal morning clothes and high hats were absolutely de rigueur at the launching of the new German super-cruiser or "pocket dreadnought" Deutschland. To the christening of this ship, not by a woman but by President Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von HINDENBURG himself, 56,000 persons had been invited and held 56,000 cards of admission...
...glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius out of lightest, strongest materials, was just Cruiser...
General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing last week presented My Experiences in the World War, in book form, to take its place beside the military memoirs of Foch, Haig, Hindenburg, Ludendorff.? Dedicating his volume to the Unknown Soldier, the only commander since George Washington to lead a U. S. Army throughout an entire war focused his full attention upon the military contribution of the U. S. to Allied victory. Outside the range of his crisp impersonal narrative are the billions of dollars, the tons of supplies and food with which the U. S. bolstered up France and Britain after...
Fascist Hitler does not want to become a political Al Capone. He much prefers his party (12,000,000 voters) to his Gang (150,000 "storm troops"). Abruptly last week he ordered the Gang to make no resistance of any kind to President Paul von Hindenburg's decree suppressing freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and free speech (TIME, April 6). When this order, telegraphed from Weimar, reached Storm Captain Walter Stennes in Berlin he passionately told his men: "This Hitler is a dishrag...
...more Fascists into the next German Cabinet. There is danger, indeed great likelihood, that many disgruntled Fascist gangsters-toughs who like direct action-will hire out to the Communist gangs. Such men see no sense in the only action Leader Hitler took last week against President Hindenburg's gag decree: he hired lawyers, had them get ready to bring suit on the ground that the gag is unconstitutional...