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...theme of Adolf Hitler's rousing peace speech touched off by President Roosevelt's disarmament appeal (TIME, May 29). In Berlin last week Nazi ideals jogged back to their pugnacious norm. Beefy Captain Nermann Wilhelm Göring, most potent Hitler henchman and Premier of Prussia, stomped up the rostrum of his Diet to tell Prussian Deputies his plans for their Ministry of Education...
...Troops in Germany and Austria. Only the lack of arms and equipment prevented it from being the biggest, most powerful army in the world. Discipline. Next Nazi move last week was announcement that an official secret police, paralleling Russia's G. P. U., would be set up in Prussia, under command of the ever useful Hermann Göring, and that, as before the War, German soldiers and Nazis would no longer be responsible to the civil courts for their misdeeds but would be tried by special military courts from which reporters would be barred. This seemed like reaction...
...beer hall and on an upper floor is a long timbered room known to tourists as the oldest fencing hall in Germany. Here for over 100 years members of the student fighting corps have staged their slashing bouts. The Republic's law against student dueling was lifted in Prussia, Bavaria and Baden three weeks ago (TIME, April 17). Heidelberg boys celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday last week by holding the first public, open, officially recognized student duel in the University's 547 years...
Holy Week of Pope Pius XI's Holy Year ended in Rome last week with a great banging of bronze bells and the smoke of thousands of censers. In Rome to hear the bells and smell the smoke were the Vice Chancellor of Germany and Premier of Prussia but their minds were on other things. Lean-jawed Col. von Papen and blustering, full-blooded Capt. Goring darted from one ancient palace to the next, from the Vatican to the Air Ministry, to Il Duce's office. Shortly stumpy little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria came roaring over...
...Denmark. They kept their word for almost 200 years, then lost it to Sweden, got it back in chunks. In 1806 Schleswig-Holstein was joined to Denmark. In 1848 Denmark allowed German-populated Holstein to join the German Confederation and during the next two years beat off Prussia's ungrateful attempt to seize Schleswig too. But in 1864 Austria and Prussia ganged up on Denmark, bloodily took Schleswig away. For 50 years Schleswig and Holstein were both German. The Paris Peace Conference allowed Germany to keep Holstein and German Southern Schleswig. By the Versailles Treaty plebiscites were held...