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Herman Kantorowicz, who under the Hitler regime, was dismissed from his post as Professor of Penal Law and History at the University of Kiel, will speak to the Harvard Liberal Club Sunday evening. The title of the speech, which will be given at 7.30 in the Winthrop House Common Room, will be "Types of Modern Dictatorship...
...interest slavery," the payment of interest being tainted in his mind with a stigma not unlike that attached by President Roosevelt to hoarding. So hot grew the squabbling of U. S. private creditors for their interest in Berlin last week that Dr. Schacht rushed off for a rest to Kiel. "I admit the necessity of paying interest on borrowed capital," said he, "but the common good should be considered before all else...
...then struck straight at Mexico's big oil port, Tampico. Rivers rose, wires were down, rails were up. For hours on end no one knew what had happened, then, from the sputtering wireless of ships that managed to ride the gale came the first reports. The German tanker Kiel flashed: '"Most immense tragedy. Impossible to imagine extent. Those parts of city not destroyed by wind now ten to fifteen feet under water." From Mexico City came word that it would be at least a week before trains could reach the striken city. Meanwhile planes roared out loaded deep...
...blazed with similar books. In the Romerberg, Frankfurt's medieval marketplace, a band played Chopin's Funeral March during the firing. In Munich only 100 books were burned, yanked from the shelves of the University library. Breslau boasted that it burned 5,000 Ib. of heretical works, Kiel burned 2,000 volumes...
...admirers try as darkly as possible to solve. First Bogard takes Claude on a bombing trip in his plane, rather hoping that he will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow up a German cruiser in Kiel. On this escapade, Claude gets shot blind; Diana, almost prepared to let him down at last, has to do the right thing, stay with him. Bogard does the right thing also; he volunteers for a suicide assignment. There is only one Right Thing left to do. Ronnie and Claude...