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...heart, the same systematically calculated ambition, and even the same physical beauty of a fallen angel." Hoettl saddles Fallen Angel Heydrich with a satanic list of deeds. It was Heydrich, according to Hoettl, who worked out the plans for the mass extermination of the Jews and for the stringent Nazi subjugation of Czechoslovakia.* It was Heydrich who planted the idea in Hitler's mind that his old party comrade, Ernst Roehm, was plotting a storm-trooper revolt, and Heydrich himself, says Hoettl, made up the lists of the hundreds who were done away with on June...
...named Minister of National Economy but quit after a few months, was made Finance Minister in 1946 but quit in a matter of days-each time because he could not win support for stringent anti-inflation measures. Has since turned down all Cabinet offers because he disapproved of the long succession of patchwork coalitions designed to do as little as possible to offend as few as possible of France's variegated factions. "You cannot cauterize a wooden leg," said Mendès-France contemptuously...
...tariffs is the bitter resentment generated in foreign nations unable to sell their goods here. Restrictions against exporters in Italy, for example, have increased the strength of anti-American groups in that country. Other North Atlantic allies have voiced their dissatisfaction in sharp denunciations of the U. S.'s stringent tariff barriers. As Canada's Prime Minister warned, "We don't want to see the kind of will develop which (U. S.) tariffs inevitably create." So while time and dollars are spent to win friends abroad, the United States is helping defeat its own program by retaining a high tariff...
Many Congressmen are surprised when they find that the millions of dollars poured into foreign aid since the last war have often failed to win enthusiastic friends for the United States. Much of the blame for this failure lies, with this country's stringent immigration laws. Obsolete, discriminatory provisions in the McCarran-Walter Act have created a jungle of arbitrary and unfair rulings. The result has been a growing resentment towards the United States on the part of foreign government who feel that America is excluding their nationals. On the opposite page of today's paper there is a survey...
Limits to Leeway. California's Imperial Valley Micro-Midget Association, like others, has imposed stringent limits on size and engine displacement for the racers. The buglike cars must be no longer than 5 ft., no higher than 34 in., must have a wheel spread of no more than 42 in. Valve-in-head engines may have a maximum of 18 cu. in. of total cylinder displacement; overhead valve engines are limited...