People, Apr. 3, 1939

Hippopotamoid Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring ordered all German soldiers in uniform to refrain from the Lambeth Walk, because it presents a 'disgraceful picture," forbade his airforce bands even to play the tune.

Jan Garrigue Masaryk, son of Czechoslovakia's founder and its former Minister to Great Britain, now one of the many men without a country, bitterly told University of California students: "They operated on us at Munich and without an anesthetic. Then that man comes into the hospital and rapes us. To make a complete job of it, he then extracts the...

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