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Chamberlain & Daladier, Here was the stark Nazi reality which Europe faced -openly expressed at last-secretly impressed long ago upon the inner councils of London, Paris, Rome, Moscow. When Premier Edouard Daladier, who was presiding in Paris at a State dinner for the Tsar of Bulgaria, was called to the telephone by Neville Chamberlain and invited to No. 10 Downing Street for a last round-up this week, France had already given and observed many signs which made decision easier. Before every war which France has ever actually entered, the spontaneous will of her people has sent them swirling through...
...vote for Senator Clark, who opposed the Court Plan, Reorganization and other Roosevelt legislation, could be ascribed to his strong Favorite Son position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State Supreme Court, by 117,000 votes over Judge James V. Billings of Kennett, candidate of non-New Dealish Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City...
...years some of the world's most lurid, blood-curdling "true-story" prison tales have come out of experiences, real and embellished, gained in France's famed penal colony in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation...
...have left Germany, others have stayed there and kept quiet, and still others have chimed in with the Nazi idea that German science should be distinct from the brands of science in evidence elsewhere. A most outspoken and articulate defender of Nazi scientific ideology is crusty old Professor Johannes Stark, head of the German Bureau of Standards, an able physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1919 for his discovery of the "Stark effect" (splitting of spectrum lines when a glowing gas is subjected to a strong electrical field), and his studies of "canal rays" (beams of positively charged particles...
Thus thundered doughty Professor Stark in the columns of Nature, probably the best-known scientific journal in the world. An international clearinghouse for major research, Nature has frequently found occasion to excoriate abuses of the scientific spirit in Nazi Germany. At first glance it seemed curious that the editors of Nature bothered to print Professor Stark's expostulation...