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...visible result of his visit was the closing (after powwows with Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath, Sudeten Leader Karl Hermann Frank) of the Bohemian and Moravian frontiers, the outlawing of all strikes and lockouts...
...hair-raisers seemed a little out of plumb when 20,000 Czechs set out for the funeral of Czech Policeman Johann Mueller, killed by Germans last week. To his funeral the Czech Unity Party sent a crown of thorns. But when the jittery Czech Government (with concurrence of the Protector) called the rites off, the 20,000 Czechs went quietly home...
...Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers are ostracized. Delicate machinery, especially in munitions plants, has been mysteriously damaged, and there have been unexplained delays in railroad schedules and slowdowns in factories. As a result, Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath recently went to Berlin to report to Adolf Hitler on the trouble he was having with stubborn, noncooperative Czechs...
...Protector" Daladier was "honored" to be received in white-walled Bardo Palace by plump, thin-bearded, 76-year-old Sidi Ahmed II, Bey of Tunis, figurehead ruler of the protectorate. Slender Erik Labonne, French Resident General, the real ruler of Tunisia, stayed in the background. As M. Daladier crossed the imaginary boundary line of the Bey's palace grounds he forgot to observe a 500-year-old custom which requires all visitors, high or low to bow. An attaché quickly reminded the Premier, who halted, backed up, bowed...
...their one best bet: District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York County, the slim, dapper 36-year-old who has gained national publicity through his prosecution of big-city rackets (72 convictions, one acquittal, one mistrial). The mistrial in his crowning case against Jimmy Hines, alleged Tammany protector of the "numbers" racket (TIME, Sept. 19), gave his partisans a last-minute sinking spell. But they felt that public opinion blamed Justice Ferdinand Pecora (a Democrat) more severely for his ruling than Prosecutor Dewey for the question which evoked it.** Last week, amid cheers, they brought him on-stage...