Word: prussia
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...Prussia's onetime Minister of Justice, Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, a Socialist who managed to get out of Germany before Nazis nabbed him, received in Manhattan last week a bill for his German "escape tax," now a regular Nazi levy...
...proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly reduced to selling whiskey...
...Minister of War). The Reichswehr, too, dropped that name, which it has never liked, to become again Germany's Heer. To cap the day, Kriegsminister von Blomberg performed a little ceremony. He went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves of two significant heroes of Prussia's wars against Napoleon Bonaparte: General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who introduced universal compulsory military training into Prussia, and General Hermann von Boyen, who beat French restrictions on the size of the Prussian Army by training successive batches of reserves for short periods...
General of the Flyers and was off with his bride to Berlin Cathedral. Guffaws from the populace were attributed to a stork which sedately circled the Cathedral spire at the crucial moment, then flapped off toward East Prussia...
Married. General Hermann Wilhelm Coring, 42, Premier of Prussia; and Emmy Sonnemann, 37, actress; in Berlin...