1909 Aviation Week at Rheims

PARIS For the next week the eyes of the whole world will be turned towards Rheims. The capital of Champagne has shown a keen sense of actualité and realized that the psychological moment in aviation had come, and that the art of flight is now out of its swaddling clothes and able to take its place in a well-ordered creation. The Rémois have also shown themselves, now as ever, good business people. The first aviation meeting is an event in the world's history, and as such can count on the attendance of thousands of strangers, so that commercially it will have its reward — a well-deserved reward, be it said — for its enterprise.

1934 Hitler Promises Strong Régime

HAMBURG Speaking in the grand Council Chamber of the Hamburg Rathaus tonight [Aug. 17] Adolf Hitler outlined to the German people in his only speech during the present referendum campaign the kind of government he will give them as an absolute dictator of the Third Reich, in which he will combine the powers of both Kaiser and Dictator. The Nazi Leader promised his audience of uncounted millions of Germans, who listened-in on a nation-wide radio hookup, an authoritative régime resting upon the confidence of a united German people and independent alike from private interests and shifting parliamentary majorities, and so capable of taking decisions at long range. His reign, Hitler promised, would be based on two pillars — the National-Socialist movement, serving as a political support of the government, and the Reichswehr as its military buttress.

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