Word: truce
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...Christmas Truce" in German politics ended last week with a blatant, blaring parade of Berlin's largest party, the Communists. Miles of marching Reds snarled the capital's traffic for hours. Their brass bands shrilled and thumped the "Internationale" (written by a Frenchman). Shaking their fists at stolid police the Reds shouted "Down with Hunger and Chancellor von Schleicher!" The parade was Berlin's most harmless Red spree in years. No one was hurt...
Hitlerites staged their first Berlin mass meeting since the "Christmas Truce" last week, after attending the funeral of a young Fascist killed in a New Year's Day riot. "If our leader had been Chancellor when this Hitler youngster was killed," cried Baldur von Schirach, "50 Communist leaders would have decorated lamp posts next day! The soul of this dead lad is mightier than the von Schleicher Cabinet...
...getting better newspapers than they ever dreamed of. But all the publishing world knew the war was uneconomic in the extreme. Early last year the combatants began to pull their punches. Rothermere abandoned his expensive Newcastle paper on condition that Camrose withdraw from Bristol. Rumors of a more extensive truce gained in volume until last week when Northcliffe Newspapers Ltd., having never shown a profit, announced voluntary dissolution...
Real victor last week was not General Kundt but Pope Pius XI who did something his predecessor Benedict XV was never able to do through the four years of the Great War. The Papal Nuncio in La Paz persuaded both Bolivia and Paraguay to agree to a 24-hour truce commencing at 10 p. m. Christmas...
...Nearly every winter since the Republic was founded the cabinet of the moment has been so unstable as to need a "Christmas Truce," appealing to sentimental Germans...