GERMANY: Bloodcurdling

"Quiet in the hog sty!" bellowed Prussian Communists. "Silence in the robbers' den!" roared Prussian Fascists. Amid stentorian shouts for stillness, all proceedings in the Prussian Landtag were temporarily abandoned.

The Communists deemed the Fascists hogs because the latter demand the return to members of the German nobility of property seized from them by the German Republic. The Fascists flayed the "Communist robbers" because they are whooping up German voters to ballot, on June 20, in a national referendum (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) which—if 20,000,000 votes are cast—will confirm and...

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