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...greatly to the credit of the Government of roly poly Manuel Ozana, just restored to power on the issue of Spain's new church laws, for anti-church sentiment to be as marked as possible. After noon when the enthusiasm of the young cutups began to wane, Republican police were suddenly ordered out to take down all Sacred Heart banners "to avert further rioting." Only one defender of the faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King...
...Jews had been killed. Physical violence was on the wane, though for a few days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland. Reports of the torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth...
...late Lord Asquith was the last legitimate successor to William Ewart Gladstone as Liberal Leader. When Asquith's power began to wane David Lloyd George seized Liberal leadership but he was deserted at the last election by orthodox Liberal Sir Herbert Samuel and unorthodox Liberal Sir John Simon, the latter remaining in the Cabinet last week supported by 35 Liberal...
...American principles is the increasing abhorrence of educated young men for politics. Politics is no longer a decent profession. . . . When a government has fallen in the estimation of a people so that the finest and strongest people will not take part in it, that government is on the wane. The American Government is menaced by a very real, nation-wide disgust of this kind...
...Hitler failed to live up to the claims which he and his followers had been making before the first voting in Germany on March 13, and for this reason it may turn out that public faith in him is shaken and his power in German politics is on the wane," said S. B. Fay '96, professor of History in an interview last night after the results of the final German election were made known...