British Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald issued a
white paper justifying the country's increase of armaments and blaming Germany's rearmament as responsible.[4]
Anti-Semitic posters appeared in towns all over the
Saarland despite a German promise to the
League of Nations to not persecute Jews in the Saar for 12 months.[5]
Italy and Ethiopia agreed to establish a
neutral zone along the border of the
Italian Somaliland, although Italy continued to build up its military in the region.[6]
An
LNER train attained a record maximum speed of 108 mph during a run from London to
Newcastle.
A new sculpture by
Jacob Epstein titled Ecce Homo went on display at the
Leicester Galleries, depicting an eleven-foot tall Christ with a square face and a broad, flat nose reminiscent of
Polynesian art. The Catholic Times blasted the sculpture as "a distorted reminiscence of a man, the debased, sensuous flat features of an Asiatic monstrosity", while Conservative politician
Cooper Rawson stood in the House of Commons and asked the government to remove or confiscate the statue for offending public decency. Of the controversy, Epstein himself only said: "I've made the statue and I've nothing to say about it – except what I've already said in the statue."[9]
Nazi Germany indirectly banned Jews from working in manual trades when a guild organization was established requiring everyone to pass a master's examination and be entered into a roll before they could pursue a manual trade.[16]
Nazis arrested 700 pastors of the oppositional
Confessional Lutheran synod before they could read a proclamation criticizing the state church regime.[21]
The National Student League at
Harvard University demanded the removal of a wreath in
Appleton Chapel commemorating German war dead. The wreath, placed there the previous day by German Consul General
Kurt von Tippelskirch, bore a swastika emblem.[22]
Haile Selassie said that Ethiopia would never apologize to Italy for wrongs not committed. "We will not be coerced or intimidated by the military preparations recently announced into according the satisfaction which Italy demands", he said.[23]
Berlin was darkened from 10 p.m. until midnight to conduct a mock bombing drill in the skies overhead. Householders who left lights on during the drill were liable to be fined or arrested.[26]
France sent a message to the League of Nations calling for an extraordinary session to discuss German rearmament under Article XI of the
League Covenant, which provided for a member nation to call to the League's attention any circumstance threatening international peace.[27]
France and Italy delivered formal notes of protest to Germany against its decision to rearm. German Foreign Minister
Konstantin von Neurath informed them that his government disregarded their notes because they did "not take the current situation into account."[28]
The Soviet Union formally ceded the
Chinese Eastern Railway to
Manchukuo in exchange for 23.3 million yen. China insisted it still had part ownership of the railway and called the sale illegal.[29]
Joseph Goebbels issued a circular letter announcing that advertising would be banned from German radio starting October 1, because of "incompatibility with the political and cultural tasks of broadcasting."[30]
Died:Florence Moore, 48, American stage performer and silent film actress
In
Kaunas,
Lithuania, four Nazis from
Memel were sentenced to execution by firing squad for plotting an uprising to restore Memel to Germany. 77 others were sentenced to prison.[34]
In Berlin, thousands of Nazis marched on the Lithuanian legation in protest of the death sentence handed down to four Nazis the previous day. The mob had to be held back by a police cordon.[35]
German police said that they had arrested an unspecified number of nuns and monks in Catholic convents because they had violated laws prohibiting the exportation of foreign currency and other laws requiring German citizens to report any foreign exchange. 2.5 million marks were reported to have been involved.[38]
Anthony Eden moved on to Moscow to hold more peace talks with Soviet Foreign Minister
Maxim Litvinov.[11]
^Bunyan, Patrick (2011). All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities, Second Edition. Fordham University Press. p. 197.
ISBN978-0-8232-3174-4.
^"French Deputies Vote to Build New Battleship". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 26, 1935. p. 2.
^Day, Donald (March 27, 1935). "Sentence 4 Memel Nazis to Death; 77 Sent to Prison". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 8.
British Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald issued a
white paper justifying the country's increase of armaments and blaming Germany's rearmament as responsible.[4]
Anti-Semitic posters appeared in towns all over the
Saarland despite a German promise to the
League of Nations to not persecute Jews in the Saar for 12 months.[5]
Italy and Ethiopia agreed to establish a
neutral zone along the border of the
Italian Somaliland, although Italy continued to build up its military in the region.[6]
An
LNER train attained a record maximum speed of 108 mph during a run from London to
Newcastle.
A new sculpture by
Jacob Epstein titled Ecce Homo went on display at the
Leicester Galleries, depicting an eleven-foot tall Christ with a square face and a broad, flat nose reminiscent of
Polynesian art. The Catholic Times blasted the sculpture as "a distorted reminiscence of a man, the debased, sensuous flat features of an Asiatic monstrosity", while Conservative politician
Cooper Rawson stood in the House of Commons and asked the government to remove or confiscate the statue for offending public decency. Of the controversy, Epstein himself only said: "I've made the statue and I've nothing to say about it – except what I've already said in the statue."[9]
Nazi Germany indirectly banned Jews from working in manual trades when a guild organization was established requiring everyone to pass a master's examination and be entered into a roll before they could pursue a manual trade.[16]
Nazis arrested 700 pastors of the oppositional
Confessional Lutheran synod before they could read a proclamation criticizing the state church regime.[21]
The National Student League at
Harvard University demanded the removal of a wreath in
Appleton Chapel commemorating German war dead. The wreath, placed there the previous day by German Consul General
Kurt von Tippelskirch, bore a swastika emblem.[22]
Haile Selassie said that Ethiopia would never apologize to Italy for wrongs not committed. "We will not be coerced or intimidated by the military preparations recently announced into according the satisfaction which Italy demands", he said.[23]
Berlin was darkened from 10 p.m. until midnight to conduct a mock bombing drill in the skies overhead. Householders who left lights on during the drill were liable to be fined or arrested.[26]
France sent a message to the League of Nations calling for an extraordinary session to discuss German rearmament under Article XI of the
League Covenant, which provided for a member nation to call to the League's attention any circumstance threatening international peace.[27]
France and Italy delivered formal notes of protest to Germany against its decision to rearm. German Foreign Minister
Konstantin von Neurath informed them that his government disregarded their notes because they did "not take the current situation into account."[28]
The Soviet Union formally ceded the
Chinese Eastern Railway to
Manchukuo in exchange for 23.3 million yen. China insisted it still had part ownership of the railway and called the sale illegal.[29]
Joseph Goebbels issued a circular letter announcing that advertising would be banned from German radio starting October 1, because of "incompatibility with the political and cultural tasks of broadcasting."[30]
Died:Florence Moore, 48, American stage performer and silent film actress
In
Kaunas,
Lithuania, four Nazis from
Memel were sentenced to execution by firing squad for plotting an uprising to restore Memel to Germany. 77 others were sentenced to prison.[34]
In Berlin, thousands of Nazis marched on the Lithuanian legation in protest of the death sentence handed down to four Nazis the previous day. The mob had to be held back by a police cordon.[35]
German police said that they had arrested an unspecified number of nuns and monks in Catholic convents because they had violated laws prohibiting the exportation of foreign currency and other laws requiring German citizens to report any foreign exchange. 2.5 million marks were reported to have been involved.[38]
Anthony Eden moved on to Moscow to hold more peace talks with Soviet Foreign Minister
Maxim Litvinov.[11]
^Bunyan, Patrick (2011). All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities, Second Edition. Fordham University Press. p. 197.
ISBN978-0-8232-3174-4.
^"French Deputies Vote to Build New Battleship". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 26, 1935. p. 2.
^Day, Donald (March 27, 1935). "Sentence 4 Memel Nazis to Death; 77 Sent to Prison". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 8.