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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other world" knows by now not to take Herr Hitler's speeches of satiety seriously, but for those who believed that he would have to take a nap after swallowing both Czecho-Slovakia and Memel, there came a significant revision in the official text of the speech handed out to the press. In the revised version the above passage ended considerably more abruptly: "But the suffering that it inflicted on us must come...
...answer, which the M. P.s were not told: Assailed by doubts about his speech, Mr. King spent the 45 minutes telephoning London, reading the Foreign Office the whole text, asking whether the promise of aid to Britain if attacked was strong enough. Told that it was, he scurried back and read it to the House...
...amazingly prophetic, frothy mouthed, full text of Mein Kampf has now become a historical curiosity as well as a psychopathic marvel, and last week, on the same day, two Manhattan publishing firms brought out the first unexpurgated U. S. translations of the Nazi Good Book. One firm (Reynal & Hitchcock) will presumably earn royalties for the Führer, the other (Stackpole), being printed in defiance of the Hitler copyright, will not. Excess profits from both will go to German refugee organizations...
...Justice Frankfurter (who joined the Court too late to participate in the Fansteel case) delivered his first opinion this week. Reciting from memory without text or notes, he ruled that Florida cannot charge fees for inspection of imported cement...
...Since text books are the primary need of the universities, the plan is to make a collection of old standard works to be sent free of charge through the Smithsonian Institute which is organizing the drive throughout the country. The center of collection will be the east side door of Widener, but the committee of House representatives appointed by Phillips Brooks House will also aid collecting...