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Ever since he purged his Party in blood, Realmleader Adolf Hitler has shown a jittery eagerness to receive from as many Germans as possible great oaths of personal fealty. The whole Reichswehr from privates to generals cried "I swear by God this holy oath!" (TIME, Aug. 13). So has the Navy, the brownshirt Storm Troops, black-pantalooned Special Guards, the police. Finally last week Realmleader Hitler decided to take no further chances on the unsworn loyalty of the Germans who now know him best, his Cabinet...
...even to Paul von Hindenburg was ever sworn such an oath as the Cabinet, at Adolf Hitler's behest, last week decreed all Federal ministers, State ministers and State governors must take. The Cabinet then arose and loudly swore...
...Realmleader, announced that Adolf Hitler now considers himself German Chief Executive for life (i.e. German emperor in all but name). Addressing the Berlin Civil Service Academy, Dr. Lammers advised them that "Cabinet ministers are now responsible only to the Leader and no longer to the Reichstag. The new fealty oath eliminates the possibility of a minister voting against the Leader...
...Roosevelt rode to the campus of the College of William & Mary, second oldest (1693) in the U. S.* On the stoop of its restored main building, designed by Sir Christopher Wrenn and Completed in 1697, the President sat in cap & gown while Publisher John Stewart Bryan of Richmond took oath as the college's 19th president...
...senior regent, pale scholarly Prince Paul Kara-Georgevitch is not an over-impressive figure to hold in line this racial conglomeration that is Jugoslavia. At the National Assembly he took the oath of office last week, listened to a great funeral oration from Premier Uzunovitch while Deputies roared out "Slavu Mu! Glory to Him!" at every mention of the dead King. Eyes kept turning from the pale Prince Regent to another figure behind him. grizzled, bristling General Pera Zivkovitch, by tradition the man who let the murderers of Alexander Obrenovitch into the royal palace, virtual dictator for three years under...