Word: swastika
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...passed it by. Last week von Schirach announced that it, too, "is no longer warranted," dissolved it and forbade its leader. Eberhard Plewe, to conduct further work among boys. The last of the German Scouts laid away their fleur-de-lis Scout badges. Presently they will be issued the swastika emblems of Hitler Youth...
Same day President von Hindenburg decreed that the German Army and Navy, heretofore technically independent of the Nazi Party, must wear the Nazi swastika on their cockades and their uniforms. Tailors went to work stitching braid swastikas on service uniforms, gold for the Navy, silver for the Reichswehr...
...Nazis, the real spider at the centre of Austria's web of worries. Their tactics were to say nothing and do nothing until the Heimwehr had finished for them the messy job of cleaning up Socialism. Then they hoped to rally the disgruntled of all parties to the Swastika. The famed Nazi radio station in Munich that has been the bane of the Dollfuss Government for more than a year led off the campaign with a scornful speech by pale, spectacled Theodor Habicht, Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Said...
...Europe such as Belgium, Poland, and the Balkans, flints to the steel that sparks international discord into war. Liberty, equality, fraternity, are as crisp and dead as the documents which attest to their existence. Democracy was only a step on the road to efficient dictatorship, as the Swastika aptly shows. Scientific organization cannot admit of rugged individualism...
Where do the Nazis and their long-touted anschluss enter the picture? While Hitler has repeatedly persecuted German socialists, there is strong likelihood that many of the Austrian socialists will turn to the Swastika against Dollfuss. If Austrian Nazism gains a working majority in Austria, if Dollfuss can be overthrown, the anschluss is a foregone conclusion. Foreign armed intervention in such a case would be made considerably more difficult in this case than if Germany forced the anschluss by a repetition of 1866. Even in such an exigency, however, it is dubious, as Professor Langer says, if the people...