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Last week Premier Göring, who has already barred Jews from all the higher offices in Prussia, issued a decree requiring even municipal authorities to furnish evidence that neither they nor their spouses possessed so much as a single Jewish grandparent. By another decree he barred from Prussia's high schools and universities "all Marxist and antinational students," an order sure to be enforced in such a way as to bar Jews-since Nazis hold that Jews are all antinational internationalists...
...Miracle of East Prussia." Since such threats, typical of Nazi efforts to deal with serious problems by verbiage, have not improved employment in Prussia generally, a dramatic campaign was being urged forward in East Prussia last week by Premier Göring to make a great show of "obliterating unemployment...
Normally at the harvest season East Prussia imports laborers from adjoining Poland. This year 24,000 Prussian unemployed have been bundled into trains, shipped across the Polish Corridor in freight cars of the German State Railways, and put to work in East Prussia. Making much of this achievement Premier Göring has encouraged Berlin newspapers to print stories about how he and his protege, Governor Erich Koch of East Prussia, have there "performed the miracle of ending unemployment...
Voltaire (Warner) is an historical picture in the grand manner, with powdered wigs, conversations behind curtains, a package of letters from the King of Prussia and George Arliss in unbecoming knee breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
...last act in which Louis XV is executed by his subjects. The King orders Voltaire to the Bastille, dismisses Pompadour for having made him her acquaintance. Voltaire's situation looks serious until he learns from his secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick of Prussia. When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent him for corrections, pretends that they contain damaging evidence against de Sarnac. When the King arrives to reclaim Pompadour, de Sarnac admits enough to cause the King to arrest him, pardon...