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Deeply moving too were Orator Hitler's words last week, he having in the meantime ruptured the treaty in question and remilitarized the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). "Natural rights stand above the paragraphs of treaties," the Realmleader told an election throng of 20,000 at Frankfurt-am-Main. "I ask the German people, 'Art Thou, Oh German people, in favor of burying the hatchet with France?' and they reply 'Yes.' And I ask, 'Dost Thou, Oh German people, desire that we should attempt to lord it over or suppress France?' and they answer...
Wildly though the Munich throng of 300,000 Germans cheered Adolf Hitler, and plain though it had become that Germany was back on the "Me und Gott" standard of exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin still remained irresolute. Britain's Ambassador to Germany, Sir Eric Phipps, "almost begged" Realmleader Hitler to send a delegation to London unconditionally. Instead the Destiny-guided Realmleader came back with another slap. As his price for sending a delegation to London he asked Britain to get from all nations concerned promises that they will make Adolf Hitler's terms the basis...
...James's Palace but to Mayfair's swank Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street where almost every employe is his oldtime friend. Calling to them: "Good morning! Good morning!" the Sovereign bathed Turkishly for 90 minutes, emerged daisy-fresh to find Jermyn Street almost obstructed by a curious throng of his subjects who cheered as his United-Kingdom-built car drove...
...strangers and newshawks as was the onetime President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed the chairman that he had nothing to say, that inspiration which he had awaited until the last moment had failed him. The chairman, much more embarrassed than the medalist, conveyed this information...
...longer will sleepy book borrowers have to compete in the mad "9 o'clock Marathon" to the second floor of Widener Library in order to return the over-night books. There is no more danger of being trampled by the throng of anxious students on the main stairs...