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Whatever the truth, the Nazi machine went into action in Kladno in a big way. Next day virtual martial law was clamped down. Doors and windows of all houses had to be closed between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Theatres, schools and public halls were closed. The Czech police were mustered in the public square, stripped of their arms and imprisoned for "nonfulfillment of duty." Later they were released and sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored...
...hard facts were that Detroit expected a virtual shutdown this week, strike or no strike, Decoration Day or no Decoration Day (the same week in 1937 car production was 131,000), that the steel business placed during the May price cuts was mostly options, not orders, some of them merely verbal, and few even specified the size and composition of the steel wanted; therefore the present increase in production is mainly going into inventory...
...allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang on within then? We may be equalitarian, but Negroes can't vote in many parts of the country; we may be democratic, but how many hotels allow colored guests; we may be free, but why do most talented Negro artists live in virtual poverty? Why--why --why--over and over again the words to the song din that question into the cars of those who have listened to it--why a people must be submitted to the physical and moral subjugation that makes its songs temples of gloom and misery is the query...
...aide mémoire (an informal preliminary diplomatic note) the Japanese Government proposed far-reaching changes in the Government of the Shanghai International Settlement-changes which would give the Japanese virtual control of the Settlement. Chief Japanese demands were for more voting power for the Japanese residents of the International Settlement so that more Japanese could be elected to the Municipal Council. Other demands were for administrative and court "reforms." Just before going on leave, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew handed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita the U. S. reply. It was a strong rejection of all Japanese demands...
...things which took place in Danzig in violation of the Constitution were the suppression by local Nazis of opposition parties and the imprisonment of Socialist, Catholic and Jewish (though not Polish) enemies. In fact, things got so "low" last January that Dr. Burckhardt, who was placed in virtual quarantine by the ruling Nazis, suddenly left, returned for only several days in March and then got the League's permission to leave more or less permanently. The League Committee of Three has not got around to considering Danzig's case now for two and a half years...