Word: prussia
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...conceive of Prussia in terms of the U. S. one must picture a state so colossal as to spread from the Atlantic Seaboard as far west as Wyoming, a state so potent as to include the nation's Capital, leading mines and industries and major agricultural areas. To be Premier of Prussia is in Germany far more than to be in the U. S. Governor of the State of New York. Starting out as Kings of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns welded the rest of the Fatherland around them as the German Empire. They struck the national keynote with Prussian kultur...
...Dissenters. Starting with the state mechanism for suppression of crime and calling in Prussian Minister of Justice Hans Kerrl, Premier Göring drafted a set of laws which his Cabinet promptly adopted by decree. These provide the death penalty for attempts on the life of Nazi officials in Prussia, for "subversive activity," and for the spreading of greuel-geschichten ("atrocity stories"). The new laws also vest in Premier Göring personally more authority to pardon than was possessed by the King of Prussia...
Making clear that Prussia will ruthlessly suppress Jews, Communists or even Nazi Storm Troopers who show symptoms of disobedience. Premier Göring declared: "I have determined to intervene with an iron fist! ... It has been shown that the enemies of the State were only pretending to be dead. . . . Whoever in the future lays violent hands on an official of the State, a policeman or a Storm Trooper, must know that he will pay for it in the briefest possible time. ... It is entirely beside the point whether the act is followed by death or merely leads to injury...
Amnesty to Dodgers. Since Prussia was governed by German Socialists from 1920 until last year, Premier Göring is trying the experiment of offering wealthy folk who dodged Socialist taxes an opportunity to win amnesty for their past misdeeds by solid support of the Nazi Prussian State-contributions to the Nazi Party being implied, though of course not stated in Captain Göring's declaration...
Summus Episcopus. During the German Protestant Church struggle between Nazi and non-Nazi factions (TIME, June 12, et seq.) Premier Göring pitched in by announcing that he had assumed the ancient religious title of the Kings of Prussia, Summns Episcopus of the Prussian Protestant Church. By virtue of this office Captain Göring kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring...