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...Emergency Pastor, Rev. Martin Niemoeller, urged 1,000 blue-clad boys of the Pastor's newly-formed German Bible Circle to "Resist! Resist! Resist!" Bravely chanting the Protestant youth hymn ending "Ever Faithful to God!" the adolescents marched out of the church, attempted to parade. Menaced by brawny Prussian police, they rolled up their banners, put away their band instruments, scurried home. Priests had been sent to prison camps, despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic. Not to be downed, the Catholic Bishop of Mainz ordered priests in his diocese not to permit Nazi flags...
...week, normal, healthy Storm Troopers assumed that Germany's Supreme Court could not do less last week than order death for the five defendants in the Reichstag fire trial as all five were Communists of sorts. "The Reichstag fire is the most shameful crime in all history," declared Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring two days before the Supreme Court's verdict was expected. "The prisoners who sit in the dock at Leipzig are far worse than ordinary criminals!" That clinched the death sentences in the minds of simple Storm Troopers. Few of them knew or cared...
Nobody loves a mercenary who loses. That lesson was brought home to plump General Hans Kundt of Germany and Bolivia last week. Fresh from Prussian drill fields, he whipped the dazed Indian conscripts of Bolivia into the semblance of a modern fighting machine, commanded them in the Chaco War against Paraguay...
...Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. For "willful cruelty" to an animal the punishment will be two years in jail. Domestic animals may not be simply abandoned, nor may dogs be trained to chase cats, foxes or other animals. Dogs' and horses' tails cannot be bobbed. Bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, leading spirit in the Nazi be-kind-to-animals crusade, was again drawn last week by German cartoonists receiving the Nazi salute from all sorts of animals and saluting them in return...
When the new Malkiri Conservatory in Boston wanted a big name to plume its faculty list this autumn, it sent an invitation to Arnold Schönberg who, being a Jew, was leaving his job at the Prussian Academy of Music in Berlin. Great was the interest aroused by Schönberg's acceptance. He has upset conservative concertgoers more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...