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When a Prussian Deputy tried to fly his country's flag. Berlin police made him take it down. The Deputy's country-the German Republic-was dying if not dead. Meanwhile out of the ballot box another Germany was being reborn. Its flag- black, white & red-the onetime Imperial Hohenzollern colors, flew in every street, floated majestically from Government buildings and was flaunted everywhere by shouting, cheering throngs. Goosestepping as smartly as when they were members of Germany's Imperial Army, and with several Hohenzollern Princes in their ranks, 20,000 Stahlhelmers paraded down Unter den Linden...
...dazzled by a promised "new deal" (for Chancellor Hitler made no specific election pledges whatsoever), Germans, hoping that somehow he will bring back "the good old times." turned out in such numbers on the brilliant, balmy Election Sunday that 88% of the electorate cast ballots-an all-time record. Stay-at-homes got no peace from the Government radio which sternly commanded every few minutes: "Do your duty! Get out and vote! Cast your ballot for the Government parties...
Grimly one of Herr Funk's assistants recalled that 6,000,000 Germans or one-sixth of all Germans who went to the polls voted Communist in November 1932. "This time," he exulted, "every Communist ballot will be thrown...
Voting for Sophomore and Junior Class officers will take place today at ballot boxes in the dining halls of the Houses at Luncheon and supper and also at Phillips Brooks House for commuters...
...student council is unwilling to set up a ballot box in the Union and appoint some one to watch it, the freshmen will be glad to undertake the election on their own. At least the council should be able to discover more useful pursuits than that of playing nursemaid to the poor little unobtrusive freshmen. William F. Read...