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...Congress last week was another Jew, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. A few years ago Stalin, after he ousted Jew Leon Trotsky, was markedly opposed to admitting Jews into high Soviet office, but with Kaganovich now his right hand man and Litvinoff wearing the laurels of his triumphant Washington visit. Russia's Dictator rated last week as benignly pro-Semite...
...convening of Congress and the accession of Mr. LaGuardia as mayor of New York City find the executive wing of the government triumphant over the legislative in both city and national affairs. Mr. LaGuardia has demanded what amounts to dictatorial power over the finances of the city of New York, and it seems extremely likely that he will get it, for the credit of the city is in such a sad state that heroic measures must be resorted to in order to save...
...Horst Wessel "with music by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl" was abruptly withdrawn on the day of its scheduled premiere. Nazi critics present at previews had hailed it as "the German screen's greatest masterpiece," and "a glorious tribute to our Nazi Martyr Horst Wessel." Last week Dr. Hanfstaengl emerged triumphant when the Horst Wessel film, renamed Hans Westmar, One of Many and extensively retaken, but still "with music by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl" was released before a Berlin audience which included former Crown Prince Wilhelm...
...when he became Chancellor. To tempt Hero Hans a beauteous U. S. heiress appears, but Hans scorns a life of ease in the U. S., rushes to do Nazi battle in the streets of Berlin and dies, as did Horst, assassinated by Reds. In the final scene Nazis march triumphant under Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to celebrate Hitler's rise to Chancellor. While this closing episode was being filmed excited Storm Troopers beat up a U. S. spectator who failed to salute the Nazi banner. To salute it as it flashed on the screen up popped last week...
Translator Buck gives good advice when she says: "When you read this book forget it as a book. ... Do not try to remember the names of any of the people as they appear, or the names of the places they frequent. . . . When you have finished the book to its triumphant end. you will find that, without your knowing it, there will remain in your mind out of the hundreds of people who have passed before your eyes, certain unforgettable men and women, whose lives you have lived with them, across the seas and centuries." Plot in the Western sense there...