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...March 6 issue you give the pronunciation of the new Secretary of the Interior's name...
...China. Aside from a brief period of retirement in Japan, Generalissimo Chiang has lived in Nanking (where he recently completed a huge "foreign-style" house), only fleeing from the seat of Government when it was menaced by the Japanese attack on Shanghai. Today the seacoast and perhaps half the interior provinces of China do not challenge the authority of the Nanking Government which is recognized by the Great Powers...
...Reichstag fire was set by Communists, police promptly charged. Over a nationwide radio hookup the Minister of Interior for Prussia, blustering Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, cried: "The Reichstag fire was to have been the signal for the outbreak of open civil war! . . . The Communists had in readiness 'terror squads' of 200 each. . . . These were to commit their dastardly acts disguised as units of our own Nazi Storm Troops and the Stahlhelm. . . . The women and children of high Government officials were to have been kidnapped as hostages and used in the civil war as 'living shields...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...
...around the chest. His face is 6½ ft. wide with 10-in. teeth and ears 1 ft. long. He has a rubber nose, glass eyes as big as tennis balls. His furry outside is made of 30 bearskins. During his tantrums, there were six men in his interior running his 85 motors. Naturally no such monster would be limber enough to wrestle with a tyrannosaurus. Most of Kong's fights were photographed in miniature, some of them in "stop-motion"-using models of which the positions are minutely changed after each exposure, like the drawings in an animated...