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Some orations are of definite greatness, and the speech of Adolf Hitler to the German Reichstag last week was in that class. It has always been Herr Hitler's technique, ever since his Nazi Party set out to thrash every other German party, to employ both the heavy Teuton bludgeon and the sweet Teuton sugar-cookie. By being intermittently sweet to the people he intermittently slugged, the Realmleader has made himself what he is today. Last week he asked Germans to vote overwhelmingly once more, on March 29, that they are satisfied...
...Hindenburg then intrusted Herr Von Papen with the government although that cabinet had the confidence of only 10% of the members of the Reichstag. "The price which Hindenburg had to pay for the Nazi's support of Von Papen's cabinet, was that the President would allow the reestablishment of the Brown Shirts troops. These troops had been dissolved by me during the Prussian election," said Bruening, clearing up the question as to why the German President had ever allowed the return of the Storm Troopers...
Although Hitler had promised 4 years support of the Von Papen ministry, a vote of censure was soon passed and the Reichstag dissolved. After 6 weeks Von Sleicher was dismissed and "in a fit of panic the President gave all power to Hitier...
Erstwhile German Communist Hero Ernst Torgler, target of Moscow eulogies while he was a defendant in the Reichstag Fire Trial (TIME, Sept. 25, 1933 et seq.). was announced last week by New York's Communist Daily Worker to be living expensively near Berlin with erstwhile Communist Heroine Marie Reese. About to publish a book in which it is rumored they will describe how they have been converted from Communism to Naziism, Torgler & Reese, according to the Daily Worker, have been expelled from the Communist Party...
...great earnestness of enormous Putzy won him some sympathy. It became possible to guess that Dr. Hanfstaengl had meant to convey to Lawyer Thompson some such thought as this: Oxford professors condemn us for what we have done to the Communists said to have burned down our Reichstag, but what would those same professors say if Communists burned down Oxford? To anyone who knows Putzy the whole matter was plainly one of insufficient smelling salts, but British Justice was obliged to grind this Nazi grist exceeding small. The eminent King's Counsel for the Daily Express, Sir Patrick Hastings...