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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home Secretary Sir John Anderson, a tight-lipped disciplinarian with a hard but twinkling eye, perfectly appreciates that the moderate whoopee requirements of Tommy Atkins on leave are all but irrepressible. Last week Sir John continued to maintain a firm laissez-faire stand toward London night life despite a great twittering of complaint from the shires that today night club "harpies and hussies" are again preying on the morals and emptying the purses of apple-cheeked subalterns...
...Instead of "no punishment without law," Dr. Frank's motto was "no crime without punishment." Besides being a Minister Without Portfolio and Reich's Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Frank is also president of the German Academy of Law and Governor General of the Occupied Territories in Poland. Last week his various duties kept him hopping...
...Poland, from where he governs some 15,000,000 Poles,* Governor General Frank received a Russian delegation arriving by special train. Two years ago Dr. Frank called Germany the "protector against Bolshevistic terror" and said that the Germans would have "no dealings with Communism in Moscow or elsewhere." But last week the visiting Bolshevists were treated to a ceremonial tour around the historic old city. Then they sat down to arrange details whereby 800,000 Ukrainians and White Russians in German-occupied territory would be handed over to the "Bolshevistic terror" in exchange for 100,000 Germans in Russian-occupied...
...Report had it last week that numerous bands of Polish guerrillas actively resisting the German Government necessitated calling out four German divisions for "cleaning up" operations...
...tight as Great Britain and France are able to make it, is becoming still more drastic due to war in the Baltic, and, if the Balkans blaze up too in a Soviet grab at Bessarabia, German scarcity may soon be back to the bare bones of 1918. Significantly, last week, Vierjahresplan, official magazine of Reich Economic Four-Year Plan Director Hermann Wilhelm Göring, declared: "We must face the facts. They are the same as in 1914-18. England's power has brought German overseas trade to a complete standstill...