Word: prussianize
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...hoist the flag of the German Empire -black, white and red-above any Prussian State building is a crime under Prussian State law. Last week this crime was committed by the Fascist Speaker of the Prussian Diet, fiery Hans Kerrl...
...seem to realize last week how ardently it is turning back toward him. Only last fortnight Wilhelm II's fourth son, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm, was commanded by his father to quit the Fascist Party. Ignoring this command "Auwi." who is a Fascist Deputy in the Prussian Diet, took his seat last week during the uproar about hoisting the Imperial flag, cast his Hohenzollern vote to keep it flying...
...What a Prussian officer was a Japanese officer is-only much more so, according to recent statements by War Minister Araki which reached the U. S. last week. Only Japanese soldiers and officers, he declared, are denied by their "Way of the Warrior" or military code any possibility of surrendering to the enemy and continuing to live thereafter. If captured, even after being knocked unconscious (as was famed Japanese Major Koga at Shanghai last year), a member of the Japanese Army must commit suicide (as Major Koga...
...producer). First it was a novel, then a play, then a film. Now Playwright Winsloe's Maedchen in Uniform is to be seen in a translated version of its second phase, not nearly so satisfactory as its third. Without cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck; to state that their food and heat...
...years French art has been coming this way. Now it is going back. It was the same after the Franco-Prussian War and the French Revolution except that then wealthy Englishmen bought it up. We have since taken it back at a profit both ways. I consider French art excellent propaganda. We send it .out, making money in the process, and then it always comes back...