Word: hessians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just elected and ultra-reactionary is the Hessian State Diet in which Fascist Adolf Hitler's violent Nazis predominate. Police secured last week what became instantly famed as the "Boxheim Document." Signed by the six leaders of the Hitler majority party in Hesse this amazing Nazi manifesto set forth what should be done in case a Communist Government should happen to seize the State of Hesse by a coup...
Police refused to believe that this "Boxheim Document," unquestionably genuine, was anything less than a secret Fascist program to overthrow the German State. Acting on this assumption, they asked Federal Attorney General Dr. Werner to prosecute the Hessian Fascists for high treason. Dr. Werner refused to prosecute...
...Such shirts, commonly made of a coarse hessian, require to have their pristine stiffness removed by a good boiling before being issued...
None of these limitations, however, appeared to be necessary yesterday. There is no reason for disallowing free speech in an area such as Boston Common. Furthermore, the police were grossly unfair in their treatment of the three private and orderly citizens, two of whom were arrested after Hessian methods of coercion, failed to cow them. This should be made a test case. Law will have to be liberal to the extent of recognizing the difference between a sincere determination to preserve freedom and a volent misuse of it. The prominent citizens involved should see their convictions of right realized...