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...your Feb. 21 issue you refer to Georgi Dimitroff's methods in his Reichstag-fire trial as "indomitable, singlehanded, fighting methods" which caused the German Supreme Court to acquit "the famed Bulgarian Communist." In fact-gathering FORTUNE'S article on British Foreign Policy last March he was "a half-witted Communist stooge." Maybe I am quibbling . . . but would TIME Inc. mind settling its family difference on this point and reveal his status...
Part of the supposedly humiliating agreement which Hitler forced on Austria was that Schuschnigg would order Austrian stations to broadcast Hitler's Reichstag speech last fortnight, but the Austrian simultaneously forced the Fiihrer to agree to order German stations to broadcast Schuschnigg's speech last week. The result was that German radio listeners heard the least Nazi political speech broadcast by the big German stations since 1933. Zealous Nazis were wild with rage. Adolf Hitler himself was late for a public appointment because he had lingered by his radio set listening to Kurt von Schuschnigg. Next day scores...
...cock-and-bull story-except for the tremendous fact that the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed to rush into action with the greatest haste, before Adolf Hitler was due to address the Reichstag. Dr. Schuschnigg is one of Europe's hardest, smartest, most devoutly pious and most able statesmen. So far from the Nazis having been such fools as to try to crack him by third degree methods, the agreement, as it went into force, was chiefly remarkable for the way in which...
...nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp as he spent three hours addressing the German Reichstag...
...traitor but a hero of the Fatherland and a martyr of the Church. If he wins acquittal it will be by the 'same indomitable, single-handed fighting methods that caused the German Supreme Court to acquit the famed Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff of complicity in the Reichstag fire (TIME, March 6, 1933, et seq.), send him to Moscow where he was acclaimed and made by Dictator Stalin the head of the Communist International...