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...room in the apartment is a shrine. Its stained glass window shows the angelic likeness of a fair young woman dead now about two years. As the bride of Captain Hermann Wilhelm Göring she lived barely a year, failed tt) see his triumphal emergence this spring as Premier of Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) and the wild, popular acclaim which marks him wherever he goes throughout the Fatherland today as the No. 2 Nazi...
...Starting out as Kings of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns welded the rest of the Fatherland around them as the German Empire. They struck the national keynote with Prussian kultur. Prussia today is more than ever the dynamic centre of the Reich. Recently the drastic activities of Prussian Premier Göring have eclipsed German Chancellor Hitler's broader but less intense efforts to "coordinate" the whole Reich. Last week Widower Göring was pushing to completion a breathtakingly bold series of experiments in Prussian government...
Death to Dissenters. Starting with the state mechanism for suppression of crime and calling in Prussian Minister of Justice Hans Kerrl, Premier Göring drafted a set of laws which his Cabinet promptly adopted by decree. These provide the death penalty for attempts on the life of Nazi officials in Prussia, for "subversive activity," and for the spreading of greuel-geschichten ("atrocity stories"). The new laws also vest in Premier Göring personally more authority to pardon than was possessed by the King of Prussia...
...other ethical injunction may seem strained to laymen. After accepting an invitation to serve at a show the judge is advised to retire into semi-seclusion, as far as dos shows are concerned, until time to enter the ring. Reasons: 1) the indispensable paying spectators will not attend dog shows if they suspect trickery; 2) knavish exhibitors believe all other exhibitors equally bad-intentioned...
...Yard Cops have not been troubled by the "Reinharts" which usually ring in the Yard before examinations. Gullible girls from Guilford have been told that Reinhart was the name of soup served in the dining halls and that when students were hungry they would shout Reinhart. Another, who must believe that hardware stores sell red lamp oil and vanishing points, was told that Reinhart was an old German pedler from whom the boys used to buy cigarettes and candy. He was really an unpopular boy who never had anyone shout outside his window for him, so he used...