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What, then, was the Constitution of 1849, discovered stolen last week? It was never actually adopted, merely drafted with a view to making King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia the first Kaiser of a united Germany. To this proud Prussian King the rest of Germany seemed not worth much. "I will never stoop," said His Majesty, "to pick up a crown out of the gutter...
Logically Prussian Braun thought of Herr Wilhelm Karl Severing who, recently Minister of Interior for all Germany, handled his Schupo (national police) with such hard-boiled dash that they nicknamed him "The Dragon Slayer." Asked if he would consent to become Minister of Interior of the State of Prussia, Herr Severing accepted instantly, believing that it is in Prussia, in Berlin, the Capital, that Schupo must break Fascist Adolf Hitler's "brownshirt" movement if they...
...numbered twelve. Flushed with their great election victory (TIME, Sept. 22) they marched in coatless, each swelling out his Fascist "brown shirt," each flaunting the Fascist swastika on his left arm, each in khaki flare-pants, swank black leather boots-all proud that they had flagrantly, successfully broken the Prussian State ordinance forbidding "public appearance in political costume." Saluting the Reichstag and each other, the Browns roared: "Hail, Hitler! Wake up Germany! Down with the Young Plan." Bellowed back the Communist Deputies (who had threatened but failed to come in red shirts): "Hold the Red Front! Down with Hitler! Down...
...Swine! Swine! Scared to dissolve! Scared to lose your seat! Scared swine! Scared swine!" chanted Fascist Deputies in the Prussian Diet (State Legislature) last week. Thus they expressed their wish that Dr. Otto Braun, famed Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, should dissolve the Diet, order an election. The Prussian Fascists knew they would make large electoral gains, because the German Fascists won so heavily in the recent Reichstag poll (TIME, Sept. 22). They called Socialist Braun "swine" and "coward" because he is not simple enough to play into their hands...
...might have been: "Von Steuben, we are here!"- The Frenchman Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la La Fayette, was of very slightly more aid to the American revolutionary cause than was the German Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben, experienced Prussian officer, became in 1778 Inspector General of the Continental Army. He drilled recruits, made soldiers. In 1781 he watched his soldiers defeat the British at Yorktown. Congress, grateful for his services, gave him a gold-hilted sword, $2,400-per-year pension. He died at Steubenville...