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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimously upheld by 75,000,000 Germans. He referred to the famed Reichstag speech in which Hitler pooled all Germans everywhere into one ocean of German blood. He ended by defying openly for the first time the Czechoslovak statute which forbids the existence of a Nazi Party-it has hitherto existed in Czechoslovakia sub rosa, has not dared to use the swastika Nazi symbol. Daring the Government to enforce the law, Führer Henlein climaxed: "Naziism is the guiding principle of our Party, the same as it is for all Germans throughout the world! It is unbearable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: ... Or Else! | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...will be the purpose of the six subsequent editorials to discuss the mentioned systems in detail, and to emphasize in particular the hitherto neglected need for cooperation among officials, teachers, and students of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

...bustling American and European salesmen who made the inaugural trip were delighted that they had been spared the hitherto unavoidable, tedious, 48-hour journey from Bagdad, Iraq to Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: 20th-Century Darius | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Imperial Bank of Iran, set back from the street, needed an entire square. Slowly rising to completion is an Imperial Opera House to cater to the hitherto undiscovered musical tastes of Iran's citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: 20th-Century Darius | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...pictured himself as a 20th-century Darius even when he was still only a cavalry colonel. When he became Minister of War in a Shah-less government (the former do-nothing Shah had moved to Paris), he acted more like the great Persian monarch. He imposed his will on hitherto independent fierce tribes, hanging dozens of warring sheiks, making other suspected local chieftains his permanent "guests." On a group of disobedient mullahs (Moslem priests) he applied the whip in person. Strongwilled, previously healthy followers of the absent Sultan Ahmad Shah, whom Reza Khan later had deposed, developed mysterious maladies from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: 20th-Century Darius | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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