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...Germany at the time of the famed Reichstag fire trial in 1933, and the Nazis tried to make him a scapegoat, along with dullard Marinus Van der Lubbe and German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where...
...where Benito Mussolini was born more years ago than he likes to have recalled,* San Marino has 38 square miles of tourist-delighting quaintness and scenery, 14,500 inhabitants who love to give away honorary citizenship to rich Americans. Tradition claims it was founded by a hermit stonecutter named Marinus who gathered about him Christian slaves-the poor and oppressed. Cesare Borgia briefly conquered it in 1503, Cardinal Alberoni overran it for a year in 1739, but always, through centuries of war and political strife, with Italian acquiescence, it maintained its borders, governed itself wisely and well...
...until Federico Gozi (whose family has run San Marino for years) and Salvatore Foschi were elected twin regents last week, and given identical uniforms and equal governing power, did San Marino catch up with World War II. But something else had been forgotten by San Marino. The stonecutter Marinus during his lifetime railed against wars to gain territory, on his deathbed gave his people a creed which has guided them from the Fourth Century until the 20th: "We do not want an inch of others' lands and we will not give up an inch...
Realism. No one has given Wilhelmina more trouble in recent years than Adolf Hitler, and from no ruler has the Führer taken, at times, such straight talk. She protested in a personal letter to Herr Hitler the death sentence passed on Marinus van Der Lubbe, the Dutch Communist, for his alleged part in the famed Reichstag fire. When the Nazis confiscated the passports of German bridesmaids and guests to her daughter's wedding, she stated with quiet directness: "This is the marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy...
Reader Moore should pay attention. The "half-witted stooge" of the Reichstag trial was Marinus van der Lubbe, who shortly after the trial ended was beheaded...