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...Latin word pronounced lee-mace, meaning crossroad, limit, boundary, passage. Limes Germanicus, built in the First Century A.D. from the Rhine to the Danube, was a series of forts to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: War is Over! | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Teuton blood courses through many veins in the British Dominion of the Union of South Africa and, during the long-brewing international crises between Czechoslovakia and Germany, cagey Premier James Barry Munnick Hertzog has refused to commit himself for or against the Nazis. But last week, as events in Europe rolled toward war, the Premier indulged in a sudden burst of loyalty to the Mother Country, personally took to the Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Certain Obligations | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Germany has 40,000 person hired all year around to act as spies, provocaters and propagandist. If Hitler-Ala forbid-would pas away the world still don't need to get discoured because there is 45,000,000 Hitlers in Germany. Or in other words 45 million teuton who feel just like Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...please look in Encyclopedia next time for there is 40,000 teuton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...inside out for the Führer's cold eyes. Tons of sweet oil are poured on the creaking Rome-Berlin axis to keep it cool. But the alliance is unnatural. It is a faux ménage after all. The two 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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