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...GESTAPO: INSTRUMENT OF TYRANNY (275 pp.) - Edward Crankshaw - Viking...
...Silly Intrigues." As for the phrase "Blas Himmler," said Robles sardonically, "how could it be regarded as injurious to compare anybody with Himmler when Herr Himmler (chief of Hitler's Gestapo) was received with full honors and presented with the highest Spanish decoration during his visit here in 1940?" The sentences handed down by the court were surprisingly light: six months to a year and $125 to $250 fines...
...authentic hero of the resistance, with an unimpeachably anti-Fascist record. Trained by the OSS at Bari, he and an aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with the Allies...
Socialist Premier Guy Mollet is a Frenchman who seems so shy and timid that in World War II the Gestapo once let him go, after arresting him as a Resistance leader, because they could not believe he had the requisite tough qualities. Last week this deceptively mild ex-high-school teacher of English stirred up an international commotion by challenging the foundations of Western policy and criticizing France's allies (particularly the U.S.) in terms more caustic than any other French Premier has used since the days of Charles de Gaulle...
Hardly had the seizure notices been posted before the uproar began. Predictably, Communists accused the Government of "Gestapo-like harassment" and an attempt to muzzle political opposition. The Civil Liberties Union rushed to the party's defense, and the editors across the United States huffed and puffed about the "threat" to the free press. In Washington Moysey's superiors said that the case was being handled "precisely as any other similar taxpayer matter would be handled...