Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the No. 1 German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who in early Nazi days gave Hitler invaluable fiscal support, suddenly arrived with his wife and child at the Locarno Hotel in Lucerne, settled down for "an indefinite stay." Said Tycoon Thyssen: "As a member of the Reichstag I expressed myself in timely and emphatic fashion against the war and the present policy of the Reich Government. This political attitude threatened to cause consequences which forced me to leave Germany...
Revolt by Spring? Nearest thing to a blueprint for revolution in the Reich was outlined at Paris last week by Otto Strasser whose famed brother Gregor, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party as recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With...
...quick curtain was rung down in London last week on the opera bouffe lawsuit of Her Serene Highness Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst v. Viscount Rothermere (TIME...
...first arrivals was last week reported by the Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen Politiken. The unhappy Jews were virtual slaves. The area around the city was entirely hedged in by barbed wire and bayonets. Gradually the Jews were herded from the station, given quarters of sorts, put immediately to work (twelve hours a day) on roads, fields, bogs, buildings...
...last week, when the annual talks began, there was a new, serious air about them. For one thing, Russia's new Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin knew what he was talking about. He used to be a professor of ichthyology. Furthermore, Ambassador Smetanin was appointed to his post the day Japan agreed to a truce in the Outer Mongolian border fighting-after Russia had trounced the seatful pants off the Japanese Army. He was in a position to dictate...