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Having bought ample space in two such solidly capitalistic papers as the N.Y. Herald Tribune and the N.Y. Times, 326 citizens of more or less good will invited the nation to follow the newest Communist party line. The occasion: the tenth anniversary of Georgi Dimitrov's epic Reichstag trial. The citizens: a spicy mixture of Earl Browder, Arturo Toscanini, Lillian Hellman. The party line: a united front of "progressives, liberals and democrats" behind Georgi Dimitrov. (Most newspaper readers asked themselves blankly: "Now who the hell...
Died. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, 66, "the Clarence Darrow of Germany"; after long illness; in Queens, L.I. A Socialist, onetime Prussian Minister of Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
...Including: Erich Weinert, anti-Nazi poet (President); Major Karl Hetz (first Vice President); Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great grandson of Bismarck (second Vice President); Wilhelm Pieck, onetime leader of the Communist bloc in the Reichstag, 29 other less important Germans...
From Moscow a major political offensive was launched last week. German war prisoners, refugees and former Communist Reichstag deputies announced the formation of a National Committee for German Freedom. Declared the Committee's manifesto: "The day is approaching when Germany will collapse under the impact of simultaneous blows from all sides. The war is already lost. But Germany must...
...give readers a clear notion of how the R.A.F. and the German Air Force will compare in the coming battle for Europe. Hauptmann Hermann's book contains sketches of early Nazi airmen, ancient history on how the first building of the Luftwaffe was accomplished in spite of the Reichstag, the liberals, the socialists, the communists and the League of Nations...