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Riots were biggest and worst in Greater Berlin, most extensive city on the European Continent (area 348 sq. mi.). While unconcerned tourists strolled Unter den Linden, the northwest suburbs of Berlin became a welter of knifing, bludgeoning and wild shots. Communists, defending their homes, ripped up paving stones, barricaded streets, stuffed their barricades with mattresses. The leader of a Fascist charge was shot dead as he went over the Red top. Police, clubbing furiously, no sooner restored order in one street than rioting broke out in the next...
...bungalow. Every morning he works in his study, in afternoons chats with Pasadena scientists or attends advanced seminars at California Institute of Technology. Evenings are usually spent quietly at home. But one evening last week, so gay was he over an invitation to visit his old friend Lawyer Samuel Unter-myer in Coachella Valley, that he did a thing unusual for him-went to a Los Angeles cinema...
...Steel Helmet Society and other monarchistic and militaristic organizations staged a pompous demonstration in the Berlin Stadium with much goose-stepping and waving of old Imperial flags. More spontaneous, more impressive was a student riot on Unter den Linden where 1,000 students sang Deutschland Uber Alles, shouted "Down with the Schweinische Republik," and attempted to serenade President von Hindenburg. The police, mindful of Bloody May Day (TIME, May 13), were careful not to shoot but wielded their heavy rubber clubs vigorously...
...have fun. He slept in the Prince Albrecht Palace (occupied last year by plump King Amanullah of Afghanistan). He reviewed troops with grizzled President von Hindenburg. He was publicly and elaborately dined, lunched, toasted, hocked. He gravely inspected Tempelhof airport and the once-royal Staatliche Porzellan Manufaktur. On Unter den Linden, he visited a beauty parlor and, smiling at the dimpled manicurists, said: "Aha! Here is my chance to have my fingers attended...
...Berlin. Berlin's Police President Karl Zörgiebel forbade all outdoor demonstrations on Der Tag. All the more determined, Communist bands assembled early in various parts of the city. Leather-helmeted police swinging rubber clubs quickly cleared the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden, but the Communists, acting according to a pre-arranged plan, concentrated in two suburban workers' districts, Wedding...