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...Excellency Geoffrey George Knox, a swank British career diplomat with the manners of a Curzon and something of the late Marquess' talent for playing the Viceroy. Many a Saar citizen calls the League's Governing Commission the Negerregierung or "Government for Negroes," implying that Mr. Knox treats 100% Nordic, German-speaking Saar folk as if they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany or turned over to France. For months Nazi agents from the Fatherland have been so active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sore Saar | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...truth is that our so-called wars of interest are really wars of passion, like those in Central America. . . . Nationalism is the justificatory philosophy of unnecessary and artificial hatred. . . . Under the Nazis, for example, every German is made to take his daily dose of what I may call Nordic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelers | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

Directors and stockholders of Copenhagen's Nordic Feather Co. last week attended their annual meeting. News was good, goose down was up, feathers were flying and the quilt industry, like the armament trade, was booming. Most effusive was the general manager in his praises of handsome Adolf Hitler. Exports to Germany have risen sharply since Der Führer issued a decree granting 800 marks of government money to newlyweds. When purchasing quilts and pillows for their Aryan homes they have preferred the mountainous featherbeds of Nordic Feather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Down Up | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...Race stamps this code," rumbled Nazi Codifier Dr. Helmuth Nicolai. "Our whole new legal system is constructed on the cornerstone of race. There are two kinds of Justice. The Nordic or Teutonic kind is something one feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Kosher & Kultur! | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Though he has been a shining improvement over his predecessor of 25 years ago, the debauched Cipriano Castro, there are many things about Dictator Gomez difficult to align with Nordic ideas of civil virtue. The old General is not only the richest man in Venezuela, but for all practical purposes owns the country. It has been charged that no project, from cattle breeding to oil leases, can exist without payment of a personal tribute to El Benemerito. All attempts to overthrow his government are instantly and brutally suppressed. Venezuela's pride, her highway system, has been built largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Meritorious Dictator | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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