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...Ardent Teuton longings for a union with Italy (and "revenge" on France) caused German newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...
...before her yen went off the gold standard? (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). Rumors persist in Tokyo that this treasure exists, but such secrets are always well kept. To this day Germans do not know whether their Imperial Government really had a War Chest in 1914. Fabulous but kindling to Teuton imaginations, it was supposed to consist of four huge vaults set in living rock beneath a ruined castle, the combinations of the vaults being known only to Kaiser Wilhelm II and to two officers of the Imperial General Staff...
Trouble in Paradise (Paramount) is a triumph of direction and decor which could have been accomplished only by that scowling, heavy-jowled Teuton who is Paramount's chief contribution to the civilized cinema, Ernst Lubitsch. As a rule, Director Lubitsch likes to run songs through his pictures, to accent moods and italicize bon mots. This time the songs are inaudible but they are somehow implied in the flavor of the picture?like the olive which can be tasted in a good Martini cocktail even when it is not there...
...them during the War.* When the von Papen Cabinet seized control of Germany and effectively doubled the army by taking over the Prussian state police, no French newspaper could approve, but they did publish human interest stories explaining what beautiful French von Papen speaks, how much more Latin than Teuton he looks...
...This year Europe's register of kings, the famed Almanack de Gotha, has picked Franz Paul I for its frontispiece, displays him in hoary majesty. That from this old man the young republic of Czechoslovakia should plan to seize 75,000 acres seemed monstrous, infuriated the 10,000 Teuton Catholics who populate the Principality of Liechtenstein...