Word: hlich
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...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
...Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller was as usual selling...
...Republic of Thuringia, on the borders of Bavaria and Saxony, asked Berlin for military protection in case of trouble between her two neighbors. (Minister President Zeigner of Saxony stated a fortnight ago [TIME, Oct. 22] that he would oppose monarchical activities by force of arms.) Minister President Fröhlich of Thuringia stated that he thought Saxony should leave Berlin to deal with Bavaria, but that if Bavarian troops cross the frontier "they will certainly find us Thuringians allied with our neighbors, the Saxons, for defense of the Federal Republic...