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...Putsch. At 1 o'clock that morning grey-green tanks had begun lumbering through the streets of Belgrade, going slowly so as to make as little noise as possible. Behind them were the anti-tank and anti-aircraft units and machine-gun crews. Along the roads leading from the city and at every strategic spot in Belgrade the tanks and guns took their positions. It was all done quickly and quietly, and Belgrade slept...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Hermann Kriebel, 65, participant in Adolf Hitler's beerhall Putsch of 1923, onetime chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, member of Germany's 1919 Armistice Commission; in Munich. His farewell to the Allied Armistice Commission: "See you again in 20 years...
...Message from Prison. It was in his fortress prison after his comic-opera Beer Hall Putsch misfired in 1923 that Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf and planned the Nazi revolution. If Hitler falls after World War II his successor may even now be among the thousands who are passing this Christmas with Niemoller and Mayer in the concentration camps. And from his prison cell the Advent message that Martin Niemoller smuggled out last December reached the U. S. in time for another Christmas...
...rate of 56.2? an hour, the highest ever; average building labor wage rates for common labor had risen by 3% during the summer; the Auto Workers had struck Vultee (see p. 19) for an extra 25? an hour; there was a growing feeling that the worst of the wage Putsch was yet to come...
...General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff and a handful of moth-eaten followers, including Adolf Hitler, marched out of the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich and tried to take the Town Hall. Since the National Socialist Party came to power, Nov. 8, Beer Hall Putsch's Eve, has been both a sentimental and a political occasion. Last year, just after Hitler had harangued his old comrades, a time bomb exploded in Bürgerbräu Keller, killing seven unimportant people, injuring 63, and Germany used the incident to fan hatred of Britain. This year there...