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...manufacture of this type of film. "Song of the Eagle," now showing at the Met, is a better than average example of the craze. Instead of dealing with an era from the point of view of the country at large, this picture portrays the brewing industry from the succulent pre-war days to the frothy present, as exemplified by experiences of the Hoffman family, master brewers...
First object of the von Papen-Goring pilgrimage was to prepare the way for a later trip by Adolf Hitler in person, and to start negotiations for a Vatican-Nazi concordat (TIME. April 17). Second objective was far more serious to the peace of Europe: revival of the old pre-War Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy, strengthened by separate concordats with the Vatican...
Finally with a glimmer of moderation Hitler issued a new decree laying down the nation-wide rules for Jewish lawyers. Like the law covering Government employes, it gave full rights to pre-War Jewish lawyers who had fought in the War, were not Communists and whose fathers or sons died in the War. All others were subject to disbarment. Annulling all State laws, it stepped up the total of practising Berlin lawyers from 35 to 1,000. One Jewish grandparent makes a Jew in Germany...
Mensuren. The desire to revive all the pomps and practices of pre-War Germany took a notable step forward last week when the Hitler Cabinet announced the restoration of all German orders, decorations and titles of nobility. New Nazi decorations are about to be established but they can only be bestowed by the President. Prussia will once more have a House of Peers. New Peers will be created by the Premier on behalf of the Chancellor-in other words Handsome Adolf, like Napoleon, will found his own aristocracy. The Governments of Prussia, Baden, Bavaria rescinded all Republican laws against mensuren...
...generation of English writers of pre-war vintage is dying out rapidly. Today, many older writers have obviously become part of their own period as they do not reflect the extraordinarily changed conditions in modern life. It is difficult to find in the younger English writers the sort of intense seriousness and vitality that is in the younger American authors. Writers like Dos Passes, Hemingway, Faulkner, are for the first time being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans...