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HITLER: WHENCE AND WHITHER??Wickham Steed?Review of Reviews ($1.50). Impersonal but succinctly critical resume of Hitler's life and program by an oldtime English editor who thinks that, despite its faults, the Treaty of Versailles represents the soundest territorial order that has existed in Europe in modern times...
Unseen by Museumgoers, too, was Otto Dix's great oil of War. This mighty work, compared by some to the war paintings of the late Vassili Vassilievich Vereshchagin, was originally hung in a Cologne museum. When Adolf Hitler came into power indignant Nazis spirited it away, whither no man will tell. Approximately 9 x 9 ft., War depicts a jungle-like ravine choked with abandoned corpses and military refuse. Grass grows from skulls that have spilled their brains; hands without bodies clutch vainly after life; a cadaver on the skeleton of a twisted barricade rots in mid air. The whole...
...maritime workers and chairman of the strike committee, he had organized the bloody, nine-week-old longshoremen's strike which had finally detonated the general strike. Organizing his own body of strike police, Chairman Bridges declared against violence, prepared to set up a food distribution system from central markets whither householders might go afoot. "If the people can't get food," he said, "the maritime workers and longshoremen will lose the strike...
...forests with game. The neighbors, Russians and a few Koreans, were friendly. The Government ran a cannery, was building a Jewish theatre and new schools. But the Japanese were near, the winters were long and old Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
...General" Farley appeared relieved last week at the prospective return of the airmail to its old status, he was far from conceding that the Administration had erred. In Newark, whither he went to lay the cornerstone of a new $6,000,000 post office, he repeated his charge that canceled contracts had been "conceived and executed by fraud and collusion," and loudly decried "hostile propaganda" and "political sniping...