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Bursting with excitement, Herr Doktor Oberbürgermeister ("Lord Mayor") Günter Riesen of Cologne buttoned himself into his sausage-tight Nazi Storm Troop uniform and took his stance, shortly after noon, facing the Square. To Rhinelanders in whose bones is bred Die Wacht am Rhein with its ringing, tingling question: "The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! Who guards tonight our Stream Divine?" This was the most blissful moment in 17 years. Adam's apples gulped as on three bicycles the very first real GERMAN SOLDIERS, trim lads in grim steel helmets, swerved into the Square...
...Wild, veteran Chicago news hawk and Harvard publicity director, genial panhandler of College news, liaison officer between official Harvard and the world, chief shock-troop denyer of all University rumors, was tendered a reception yesterday in honor of the anniversary of the appointment to his post here. Gifts were tendered by appreciative Boston reporters, including a rubber stamp worded, "The University has no statement to make regarding Mr. Hanfstaengl's offer...
Adolf Hitler was by no means the only bigwig in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial...
...Washington, Berlin. Paris and London consider that Premier Mussolini's deepest purposes have not yet been revealed, but that unquestionably he has hamstrung his soldier's war in East Africa by political and diplomatic back-seat driving from Rome. Darting raids by Italian bombers, unaccompanied by troop operations on the ground, have resulted in little more than the enemy's terror and disorganization. After major advances there have been sudden, desultory lulls. Because concurrent maneuvers on the Diplomatic Front have been secret and clandestine, II Duce is perhaps as good a judge as any of whether bombs...
Leading U. S. male & female figure skaters last week sliced up many an ice rink by etching queer patterns over & over again. Next week, their practice done, they will troop into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, cut fine figures before critical judges who will pick an Olympic team to represent the U. S. in Germany in February...