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Stormy Socialist Max Braun, the German who has risked his life a thousand times in the past few months to organize Saar Socialists, Catholics and Communists in opposition to Saar Nazis, declared in his final appeal to Saarlanders to vote for the status quo! "We are Germans and we want eventually to return to Germany. But we are determined that the Saar shall not go to Hitler! There is a difference between Germany and Hitler. The Nazis pass, Germany remains...
...League Council persistent Herr Braun reported that last week Saar Nazis: 1) told Saar Jews "you will be safe after the plebiscite if your passport shows that you spent the entire day of the plebiscite in Germany and so can prove you did not vote"; 2) circulated to all Saarlanders a questionnaire to be collected by Saar Nazis the day after the plebiscite with these queries answered: "Did you vote? If not, why not? If so, how?" 3) systematically subjected to beatings Saarlanders suspected of intending to vote otherwise than for union with Germany...
Dispatches from neutral correspondents checked with these charges by Herr Braun. Anticipating a Nazi majority, he appealed to the League Council to "take into consideration the terroristic conditions amid which the plebiscite is held," in deciding what to do with the Saar. In Germany brownshirt wrath boiled when His Eminence Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, defied Nazis who demanded that he order prayers for immediate return of the Saar to Germany. Instead His Eminence pointedly ordered two Pater Nosters and two Ave Marias "for the good of Germany...
...needed at the moment was tact. Fortnight ago a Captain Justice, no member of the British expeditionary force but a onetime British officer and automobile racer who had enlisted in the Saar international police, drove his friend the Earl of Aylesford and a German girl named Käthe Braun home after a high time in a café. Swinging his car around a corner he climbed the sidewalk, ran over the foot of a Frau Steig. Immediately the street was full of caterwauling Germans. Captain Justice whipped out his service revolver, fired two shots. One slightly injured a bystander...
...President Arthur E. Braun of Farmers Deposit National Bank, fifth largest bank in Pittsburgh (resources: $88,000,000), was elected a director of young, hustling Allegheny Steel Co., famed makers of stainless, non-corrosive steel alloys...