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THEWOR'D
IN 1934
by Dan C. Taylor
T
he big headlines of
1934
focus on
the world's violence.
• In the U.S., many of the most notorious
criminals including Clyde Barrow and
Bonnie Parker, John Oillinger, Charles
"Pretty Boy" Floyd and Lester Gillis
(alias George "Baby Face" Nelson) are
slain in gun battles with law enforcement
officials.
• In the U.S., Bruno Richard Hauptmann
is arrested for the kidnapping-murder of
Charles
A.
Lindbergh's young son.
• Nicaraguan national guardsmen
ambush Gen. Augusto Sandino, killing
him and several other rebel leaders.
Forty years later, Sandino serves as
the rallying cry of the "Sandinistas"
who topple the Somoza regime in
1979.
• Germany and Poland sign a ten year
pact renouncing war as a means of
settling disputes between them.
• The Soviet Union extends its non–
aggression pact with Poland through
1945
and signs a new nonaggression
pact with Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania.
• Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss is
murdered by Austrian Nazis during a
failed takeover of the Austrian govern–
ment.
• King Alexander of Yugoslavia, French
Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou and
three others are shot to death by an
assassin in Marseilles. France.
• Pope Pius X 1ends the Holy Year.
which began in
1933,
by closing the
doors to St. Peter's Basílica in Rome.
• In Germany, Marineus van der
Lubbe, a young, mentally retarded
Outch communist, is guillotinad
following charges of having set tire to
the German Reichstag. As a result of
the state
ot
emergency that had been
declared, Adolf Hitler is given
dictatorial powers.
• Adolf Hitler secures firm support
from the German military by executing
74
··enemies of the state" in the
infamous " Night of the Long Knives."
• On August 2, when German
Presiden! Paul von Hindenburg dies,
Hitler addresses the nation in a radio
broadcast eulogy in which he prays for
peace.
• The League of Nations abandons its
efforts to make peace between Bolivia
and Paraguay in their bloody war over
the Chaco province. Nevertheless, new
hope is raised with a plan to cut off arms
shipments to the two warring nations.
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