Word: gayle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empowered Minister of Interior Baron von Gayl to suppress at his discretion any German newspaper...
...which flamed up when Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria defied President von Hindenburg's decree authorizing Adolf Hitler's 400,000 "Storm Troops" to put on their brown uniforms again and make public appearance (TIME, June 20). Last week Herr Hitler stormed into the presence of Baron von Gayl, demanded that Dr. Held be restrained from interfering with Fascists in Bavaria. Experts on the German Constitution meanwhile opined that no German state has the right to override President von Hindenburg's decree concerning what uniforms may be worn but that every German state may decide for itself what demonstrations...
Baron von Gayl, impaled on the horns of this constitutional dilemma, soothed Herr Hitler as best he could, then called a meeting of his Ministry of Interior of all the Ministers of Interior of all the German states. "I cannot implore you too strongly," cried Baron von Gayl, "to bring the regulations of your states as soon as possible into harmony with our federal policy on this most important, most vital matter...
...Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted Storm Troops, outlawed by the Government of ousted Chancellor Briming, Baron von Gayl said: "This powerful national movement must be used by the Government as a force to preserve the State and the Nation...
...present. Mincing no words Dr. Held threatened to arrest any official who might be sent from Berlin to interfere in Bavaria's affairs, accused Chancellor von Papen of intending to force upon Prussia as the head of that state a Federal commissioner. Dr. Held also denounced Baron von Gayl's complimentary reference to Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops, declared that whatever the Federal Government might do the Bavarian Government would not permit Storm Troops on its soil...