Word: swastika
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Czechoslovak Communists staged their Prague rally on a tiny island in the Vltava. So many thousands went that people who found no room on the island stood in overflow masses on each bank. In ringing tones No. 1 Czechoslovak Communist Klement Gottwald denounced "Swastika Imperialism!" and quite ignored the fact that Czechoslovak Reds were once sworn foes of the Republic. "We will defend our Republic until the last!" keynoted Comrade Gottwald. "You may all be sure that you will never see the Swastika banner waving above Hradcany Castle...
French war games staged last week brought 20,000 men into action and the U. S. staged maneuvers with about an equal number. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler ordered to the swastika colors no less than 1,000,000 men, the most up-to-date, although far from the largest, army in Europe. This was mobilization-not necessarily for war-but definitely mobilization on a scale nearly comparable to the Imperial Russian mobilization of 1914 which Kaiser Wilhelm saw as a casus belli...
...people will never pull together. The Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl from a child's copybook...
Blonde, brassy the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, ardent admirer of Führer Adolf Hitler, and 23-year-old daughter of England's pro-German insurance tycoon Lord Redesdale, has a failing for flaunting her swastika pin where it causes trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation...
...policeman, rather insolent, opened my boxes and dropped things on the road. I was not wearing my swastika. He snatched a photograph of Hitler from my arm, broke the back of the picture, then took us to the police station where officials from Prague examined me and my belongings. I was furious when they seized Hitler's portrait. Apparently they suspected me of propaganda work. A woman detective stripped me and even took off my stockings," was the Hon. Unity's story afterwards...