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...Weimar Republic fell. In the Nazi-packed Reichstag, on March 23, 1933, Hitler called for the Enabling Act, which emasculated the German Constitution, took the ground from under the feet of opposition parties. Tall, husky, greying Otto Wels, president of the Social Democratic Party, strode to the dais to protest the bill. "We are defenseless, but not without honor!" he cried. "If you really wanted social reconstruction, you would need no such bill as this!" Hitler spoke next: "You're too late! We don't need you any longer!" The bill was passed...
Social Democracy died; Otto Wels fled to Prague. Naziism rolled on. In June 1934, Hitler purged his Party ranks of dissidents, linked arms with big business and the military to give his government greater power. Hindenburg died; the Dictator became President. Wehrfreiheit was proclaimed-freedom to arm. A year after the new Wehrmacht was born, on March 7, 1936, a thin column of field-grey troops followed a blaring band across the Rhine to reoccupy the territories under French guard since Versailles. The officers carried in their pockets sealed orders to retreat if France resisted. France did not resist...
Entitled "Comedy", the course will be conducted by Otto E. Schoen-Rene '30, instructor in English, assisted by Francis O. Matthiesson '27, professor of History and Literature, Jean-Joseph Sezuce, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Cesar L. Barber '35, instructor in History and Literature, and Finley. The course will include reading of the representative works of Aristophanes, Plautus, Jonson, Shakespeare, Mollere, Gogol, and Shaw...
...went Prince Gaëtan de Bourbon-Parme, 37-year-old brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...
Sued for Divorce. By Lieut. Commander William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 47; Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, ex-musicomedienne, ex-wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn (son of the late financier Otto); after ten years, two separations; in White Plains, N.Y. She is his third wife (second was Cinemactress Estelle Taylor) and mother of his two children, Joan Hannah, 8, and Barbara...