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...death sentences in the minds of simple Storm Troopers. Few of them knew or cared that State Prosecutor Karl Werner, after hurling philippics for weeks at the five Reds, had ended by admitting that the State had no case against three of them, the Bulgarians Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff. Against the German prisoner, Comrade Ernst Torgler, onetime Reichstag whip of the German Communist Party, Prosecutor Werner summed up thus: "When I put everything together I come to the conclusion that Torgler, in some way or other, had an active part in the Reichstag fire. The nature of such participation...
...will announce its solution of the dilemma it faces today: what to do with Torgler? Last Thursday the prosecution, with self-consciousness oozing copiously from each paragraph, demanded the death by hanging of this Communist and his alleged soulmate, Vander Lubbe, and dismissed the charges against Dmitroff, Taneff, and Popoff, the Bulgarians. This far the Nazis were willing to go in the strange realm of generosity; it would have been hopelessly crude to ask for the conviction of these last three Bolsheviks, against whom only the most insignificant evidence was ever advanced. But they seem to have decided that...
Determined to drag out the Reichstag Fire Trial until the last Nazi has perjured himself, the Leipzig court has introduced a dozen more reputable Hitlerite witnesses who have duly sworn that Herren Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff were six places at once on the night of the incendiarism. Quite the most ingenious charge to date was made yesterday by a good brownshirt who asserted that Torgler had tried to get him to burn the building "so that suspicion would be placed on the Nazis." The strategical brilliance of this move would have escaped any but a Nazi. CASTOR...
Almost all the "new" acts are shoddy reach-me-downs from former successes. They are not clipped short before they begin to pall. The music is a damp package of the old fireworks. Several of the set tings, notably "The Celebrated Popoff's Porcelains," are direct steals from such past Bat Theatre triumphs as the "Dutch Platter Porcelains...
...since it was written in 1888. A well-known magazine conducted an extensive inquiry as to its author, and many men have claimed to have signed the initials "E. L. T." which appeared under the poem in the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Hopper, while waiting his cue as "Colonel Popoff" in "The Chocolate Soldier", explained the true authorship to the CRIMSON reporter...