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...Hitler might produce his big stick and drub Switzerland. As a Chicago Daily News headline put it, the Saint Gustloff murder case had become a "trial of Jews, Nazis and Switzerland itself." Eager to convince the furious Führer that they were on the right side of the Nordic fence, the Federal Council last week introduced a drastic, antiCommunist bill making even the most innocent Swiss flirtations with Moscow a penal offense...
Putting their Nordic heads together to see what could be done to make The Fatherland a still more fit place for Aryan heroes, Der Führer Adolf Hitler and Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Göring last week launched a new series of laws so super-drastic that even Germans long used to the rigors of Nazidom shuddered with apprehension. The first of these laws, framed by General Göring, imposes the death penalty on any German who "knowingly and unscrupulously, out of sheer selfishness or for other base motives, sends or leaves his money or other property...
When the conductor took her familiar, choppy steps across the stage and mounted the podium, she faced 200-odd singers as ruddy-faced, golden-haired and Nordic as herself. At her feet, lost in the dusk and their black dresses, sat the 80 women who make up her orchestra. To pay her respects to Scandinavia and the thousands of Chicagoans who came from there, Conductor Sundstrom had planned a predominantly Swedish program, packed the stage with Chicago's Swedish Choral Society, brought with her Swedish Contralto Gertrud Wettergren, the big, brown-haired, rawboned Valkyrie who first sang with...
...Europe proper, in the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. When Philip was assassinated it had tripled its size, included Paeonia, the coast of Thrace down to the Hellespont, the islands of Samothrace and Lemnos, and a chunk of Thessaly. The people of Macedon were peasants, of purer Nordic blood than the Athenians, Greek in language, and very nearly Greek in sympathies...
...Chicago Field Museum is trying to depict the races of mankind to the best of modern belief (TIME, Oct. 5), why do they depict the typical Nordic male as a bulge-muscled athlete. There is another statue in existence, taken from measurements of typical Americans, which shows the Nordic male in his slump-shouldered, pot-bellied self. The least the Museum could do is to put a rubber abdomen on their statue, to be inflated for anthropologists, deflated for art-lovers. HAROLD WOOSTER...