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...Government scheduled for this week a great trial before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig of five men charged with arson and high treason. Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being deflated into an anticlimax by one of the strangest trials in history...
...witness placed Ernst Torgler in a Friedrichstrasse restaurant on the night of the fire and completely discredited van der Lubbe's Communist standing. They described the latter as "weak, vainglorious, partially blind and frequently in debt." German Communist leaders claimed they had never heard of van der Lubbe until he was arrested running out of the Reichstag during the fire. An anonymous witness declared that van der Lubbe was an intimate of famed Nazi Captain Ernst Roehm...
Starhemberg. Of the thousands who have rallied round Chancellor Dollfuss, three men are important. Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, a smooth-cheeked, smiling young man, has the same name, the same temperament as his ancestor who led the defense of Vienna in 1683. An out-&-out Fascist, he has spent most of his great fortune founding, drilling, equipping the Heimwehr that is now the backbone of the Dollfuss Government. Once a friend of Adolf Hitler, he fought beside him in the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, broke away when he suddenly realized that Handsome Adolf was committed...
...take into the Government some Nazi leader willing to accept the principle of absolute Austrian independence. The second was to abandon the Austrian Constitution and form a Fascist State on the Italian model. This would get the support of the Catholics and the Heimwehr whose leader Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg last week returned from a visit to Benito Mussolini. Third choice was to furbish up the present "Austria Over All" coalition of the Christian Socialists, the Fascist Heimwehr and the Agrarian League with the half-hearted support of the Socialists. Last week Dollfuss met long & late with...
...than cerebral. Lieutenant Tito Falconi, young Ital- ian stunter who last fortnight broke his own world's endurance record for upside-down flying with a 3 hr., 8 min. flight from St. Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief off the ground with a wing tip. Johnny Miller looped an autogiro...