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...Gestapo Tactics " Supporters of Michigan's Democratic Governor John Swainson screamed about 160,000 letters sent into Detroit by a mysterious "Committee for Honest Elections." The letters warned that anyone not properly registered would be violating the law if they voted. Charging "Gestapo and Soviet secret police tactics," Democrats claimed that the letters went only into heavily Negro districts, were aimed at keeping Democratic Negro voters away from the polls. A Michigan judge agreed, ordered the committee to leave the voters alone. For his part, Michigan Republican George Romney, his voice weakened by a cold, joked bitterly about...
From Karlsruhe to West Berlin, the fearful word Gestapo was heard again in the streets. "The man who presses our doorbell in the early morning hours." said the daily Frankfurter Rundschau, "is not necessarily the milkman. It might be political police." West German Minister of Justice Wolfgang Stammberger, who had not been told in advance of the nighttime raids, hotly offered his resignation to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer-who had not been informed either. At week's end, unappeased by several conferences with the Chancellor, Minister Stammberger was sticking to his decision, and other Cabinet members threatened to withdraw their...
...Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
When released, the stool pigeons fly straight home to the Gestapo with the messages meant for Allied intelligence...
...most unusual and reprehensible that the two Republican members were singled out in an effort to try to find some correspondence that might be twisted or distorted to create implications not substantiated by the facts." Cried Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen: "This smacks a little of a Gestapo technique...