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Because the swank, sword-handy youths of socialite German university Studenten Korps have always been Jew-haters and fierce nationalists, they championed Adolf Hitler from the start. When his Munich beer hall Putsch fizzled in 1923 and Leader Hitler was clapped into a fortress, loyal "Nazi cells" in seven German universities were among the few brownshirt organizations to carry on. Last week came the first open rift between Korpstudenten and a Chancellor who, as one of his first acts, legalized their gory duels...
...owns three motor cars, is a director of Akim, Ltd., a diamond mining corporation. In London Sir Ofori habitually wore a thick velvet toga, a bracelet and necklace of gold links, gold-encrusted crown and sandals. The 9-year-old pickaninny who bears the Omanhene's sword and is always with him represents his separately embodied soul...
...Honolulu a blade tossed by a Siamese sword-thrower missed its target, found instead the cheek of California's famed Criminologist August Vollmer. Flying on its way, it nicked the ear of San Francisco Chronicle's Editor Chester Harvey Rowell...
...acre estate of Charles Arthur Moore at Round Hill, Conn.. 8,000 U. S. Scots last week assembled for the largest festival of its kind outside Scot-land-the annual Cowal Games of the United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered...
...other words, as the record stands, the leading armament makers not only in Germany, but in France, united in their support behind the one man most capable of stirring up a new outbreak of international anarchy in Europe. And by a curious coincidence (here is where the sword presents its other gleaming edge) the De Wendel-controlled newspapers in Paris immediately broke out in a fever of denunciation against the Hitler regime and called for fresh guaranties of security against the menace of rearming Germany. Awake, La Patrie...