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Before 45,000 cheering Sudetens in the market square, bespectacled, 40-year-old Führer Henlein, onetime gymnasium instructor whose figure is now assuming Göring-like proportions, mounted a black-draped podium and addressed the coffins, covered with red flags bearing the SdP insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn...
...picture showed a pirt of the 45th Division of the National Guard, which has headquarters at Oklahoma City, maintains units in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In August 1924, the division, at the suggestion of the Arizona department, adopted as its insignia an old Navajo Indian emblem, a swastika.* In August 1924, Adolf Hitler was in Cell No. 7, Landsberg Fortress, near Munich, serving time for his "beer-hall Putsch," eleven years away from making the swastika the centre of the German national flag...
...Spanish Insignia...
...have a doubt concerning the authenticity of this picture for this reason: if you will closely scrutinize the photograph in question, especially the insignia on the gentleman's cap, you will discover what appears to be the hammer and sickle of the Communists...
TIME'S was an authentic picture of General Yague. What the Reverend Thomas Higgins mistakes for Communism's hammer & sickle is the insignia worn for at least 30 years by Spanish infantry generals and continued as the insignia of Rebel generals. It is a four-pointed star with baton and sword crossed behind it. TIME is amazed at Father Higgins' opinion of journalistic ethics. TIME never knowingly publishes an unauthentic photograph, never has, never will...