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Otto's brother Gregor knew and trusted Hitler from the first. Otto at first preferred the straight Socialist Party, joined up with Hitler in 1925. Douglas Reed makes of the next five years a picture of spotless, struggling idealism, shows Strasser bearing with Hitler's sellouts to big business as long as possible, walking out (in 1930) when he was sure once for all that National Socialism was betrayed...
...Gregor, less astute, stayed in the Party. In 1933 he was within an ace of the Chancellorship; in 1934 he was murdered. Otto, from 1930 on, set to work organizing his Black Front. The top fourth stayed aboveground. The rest took places high & low in every Party except the Communist, and bored from within. When Hitler came into power the whole Black Front went underground or, by thousands, into concentration camps. Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers. In Vienna, in Prague, in Switzerland...
...familiar figure on Washington golf links is spry, white-haired Dr. Steuart Brown Muncaster. Proud of his Scottish ancestry, he sports neckties of loud clan plaids. But seldom does he wear his own Gregor, for its red and green checks are "too subdued" for his taste. For 19 years Dr. Muncaster taught ophthalmology at Georgetown University, for more years than most of his colleagues can remember he performed eye operations in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. During that time he brought up a half-dozen younger surgeons, built up a legend about his generosity to charity patients...
Revolt by Spring? Nearest thing to a blueprint for revolution in the Reich was outlined at Paris last week by Otto Strasser whose famed brother Gregor, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party as recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With...
Fleeing from war-gripped Europe to the U. S., canceling tours in war sectors was many a famed musician: Violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Conductor Arturo Toscanini, Singers Alexander Kipnis, Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, Lauritz Melchior...