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Meantime the U. S. adherents of Joseph Stalin's new partner temporarily lost their leader by arrest. German-American Bundesführer Fritz Kuhn, who has been out on $5,000 bail since he was charged with stealing $14,000 from his outfit (TIME, June 5), had to go to jail in Manhattan in default of $50,000 bail. His bail was upped, an assistant district attorney explained, when Prosecutor Tom Dewey heard that Mr. Kuhn was about to skip the country...
Adolf to Joseph. The Führer, as a conqueror who had smashed the Polish State in 18 days, turned at Danzig to reassure Joseph Stalin and pave the way for the military partition of Poland by friendly Nazis and Reds (see p. 29). "I am happy now ... to refute . . . British statesmen who continually maintain that Germany intends to dominate Europe to the Ural Mountains. . . . Now, gentlemen of the British Empire, Germany's aims are very limited. We have discussed the matter with Russia . . . and if you are of the opinion that we might come to a conflict...
Unspeakable Weapons. Tucked elsewhere into the Führer's long and heated speech were his old claims that Poland started World War II incited by the Allies; that France was willing at the last moment to keep peace on terms proposed by Italy but was rushed by Britain into war; that the whole Danzig question was an agony to A. Hitler personally ("What keen suffering I underwent in these years only few can imagine"); that Poles have invented a new atrocity ("Worst of all the Polish Government quite openly admitted on its own radio that parachuting German fliers...
...Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Son of a Kaiserlich Junker General and a devout Protestant mother, he grew up in the aristocratic Army tradition and had only one thing in common .with the corporal who became Germany's Führer;: both loved the Fatherland...
Last week the Associated Press reported from Berlin that the Army again denied Fritsch was in Poland. Twenty-four hours later came an official German communique, datelined "Führer Headquarters." It announced: "Colonel General von Fritsch was killed the 22nd of September in battle before Warsaw. . . . The Führer ordered a military and state funeral...