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...first time since the War, Germany last week found herself with an army and a War Minister. Celebrating the official promulgation of Germany's new conscription law, handsome grey-haired Lieut. General Werner von Blomberg dropped his title of Reichswehr (Realm's Defense) Minister and reassumed the pre-War title of Kriegsminister (Minister of War). The Reichswehr, too, dropped that name, which it has never liked, to become again Germany's Heer. To cap the day, Kriegsminister von Blomberg performed a little ceremony. He went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves...
...Japan's military jitters last week passed into the dizzy realm of pure nonsense when Tokyo police pounced on a publisher of wood block prints and seized 200 prints of a famed view of Xaruto Strait, done nearly 100 years ago by famed Hiroshige (1797-1858). The print shows a rocky shore line, drawn with the master's delicate and pointed simplicity. Scores of copies of it have long hung on U. S. walls. Xaruto Strait, however, is now a fortified zone. Last week the Tokyo police, addled by suspicion, forbade further reproduction and sale of Hiroshige...
...Government, the printing presses were set busy printing one-peso notes (27.78?), the mints began to stamp out new fractional copper coins. Mexico, like Europe after the War, was going to have to do business with shinplasters. President Cardenas rushed back to the capital from a tour of his realm. Roberto Lopez, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, flew to Washington to beg for mercy or at least for time to go into the shinplaster business...
...Zagreb, second city of 11-year-old Boy King Peter's realm, proud Yugoslav police announced last week that their new and ingenious system "for disciplining motorists without arrests or fines" has been fully tested, adopted as a huge success...
...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to announce that the last $1,250,000,000 of Liberty Bonds remaining in the hands of the public had been called for redemption next October. "And so," said the Secretary, "in this 17th year after the Armistice these famous securities move from the realm of Government finance to the pages of history...