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...there were not a George Dimitroff in the life of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, it might be necessary to invent one. When Comrade Dimitroff was on trial in the famed Reichstag arson case, Prussian Premier Göring, through whose official residence the fire bugs apparently entered, screamed in open court: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal !" This scene Elmer Rice has put into a play (TIME, Sept...
Lately beefy, foppish Premier Göring has had two paramount worries: 1) Is Reichsführer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Göring because eventually Hitler will...
Premier Göring controlled himself with difficulty. In anguish his political news-organ, the National Zeitung, called Dimitroff's prediction a "lie." Anxiously grooming Göring for the job of Hitler's Deputy, it went on: "The Realmleader's glance, if he must have a Deputy, falls more and more on his old and true fellow-fighter [Göring...
...Rice made no bones about going to the judicial aftermath of the fire that mysteriously gutted Berlin's Reichstag Building in February 1933. Principal figures in that fantastic trial were Defendant Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutchman who seemed to be in a drugged stupor; Defendant George Dimitroff, a fiery, grim-lipped Bulgarian who mocked the proceedings, badgered the prosecution; gaudy, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who, taunted by Dimitroff, flew into a trembling, sweating fury, shrieked: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that...
...convention's praesidium of 37 were elected, amid loud cheers, ten honorary world members, including Josef Stalin and George Dimitroff, fiery Bulgarian Communist tried for the Reichstag fire...