Word: wesseling
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Mourning. At home, German citizens tore the newspapers from the vendors' hands. In the black type they read the unbelievable story: "Fighting at Stalingrad has ceased." With bowed heads they heard it read over the radio, not to the blare of the Nazi Horst Wessel march, but to the strains of the tragic old German folk song: Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (I Had A Comrade). They did not know that some 115,000 officers and men had laid down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats...
...drifting toward "government by the bleachers," i.e., the people. For this and for the remainder of the world's unrest, however, Williams has a sweeping cure-all; he proposes that the United States participate in a "wholesale attack" on Russia to stamp out Communism. He speaks of the Horst Wessel song as "born of the spirit of National rebirth." It is no wonder that his Fascist host in Italy could say as they met, "We think the same thoughts." All in all, Major Williams, for all the potentialities of his subjects, has here contributed nothing more than a rather muddled...
...spectators shouting, and every radio in Switzerland tuned in, the all-star Swiss soccer team last week beat the German national eleven in Berne's municipal stadium, 2-to-1. An Italian refereed. No trouble occurred. While 6,000 Nazis chorused the German national anthem and the Horst Wessel Lied, 34,000 Swiss stood respectfully quiet. Then they broke-in French, German, Italian-into the Swiss Rufst du Mein Vaterland, which goes to the same tune as God Save the King. Here and there a tall, pale-eyed individual intoned the words of Britain's national anthem...
...German songs, heard German speakers, discussed German culture. For all their Germanic carousing, his companions remained good democrats. But they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink-cheeked Faculty Adviser James Hawkes became perturbed and tried to squelch his Nazi talk, Dale conceived a cordial dislike for Instructor Hawkes, became still more defiant. To the dismay of his roommate, Dale installed a bust of Hitler on his desk...
...famed tap dancer, Virginia O'Brien, co-starring with Bolger in "Keep of the Grass," opening in Boston April 29 may possibly appear with other members of the cast, while Ray Guild, winner of first prize in the Freshman Amateur Hour Wednesday night, and the Wessel brothers, who appeared on Major Bowes program and are now in Steubens in Boston, have a series of impersonations to amuse the crowd...