Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holding a vast fountain pen in his flabby old fist, President von Hindenburg, as a last duty before leaving for his summer home in East Prussia, had just signed eight commandments or precepts, a military code which Reichswehr Minister Werner von Blomberg promptly ordered every German soldier to memorize. The new commandments supersede the military code of May 9, 1930. There are notable changes. The soldiers' code now has no reference either to the constitution or the German Republic. Omitted is the formal prohibition against soldiers' playing an active part in politics. The old democratic right of German...
...University, and he is held in high esteem by those members of his class who have, as he has, made marks in the world. He represents a country which has not been so honored by Harvard is one of its leaders since 1002. When Prince Henry of Prussia was given the LL.D., white the University pushed to confer the degree last year upon the 'new French and English ambassadors...
...Lett-in-the-street was that no alcoholic beverages could be sold for two days. Suspicious correspondents, not at all satisfied with the obvious instigators of Latvia's dictatorship, spotted the shadow of Adolf Hitler behind President Kviesis and his officers. Beyond the Polish Corridor and East Prussia, the Eastern shore of the Baltic is edged with little countries born of the War. Going north, they are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and vast lake-riddled Finland. All of them were Russian provinces before 1917 and in all of them still goes on a constant struggle of German v. Russian influence...
...Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve-paneled Adoration of the Lamb remained Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory in 1816 when two panels were sold to Prussia. By the Treaty of Versailles these two were returned to Ghent. But last week there were only eleven in all. Gone was the 54-by-22-inch The Virtuous Judges (red and blue-cloaked riders backgrounded by crags and castles) and the grey John the Baptist painted on the other side...
...force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station Hitler's Youths amused themselves by dashing among the children and snatching the rest of their banners. Bishop Bares of the Catholic Diocese of Berlin and Brandenburg sent smoking protests to Chancellor Hitler, to Prussia's Premier Hermann Göring and to Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...