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Tramp, tramp in field boots and brown shirts, Deputies of the new Reichstag chosen in Germany's "Ja Election" (TIME, Nov. 20) marched into Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week, poured in brown streams down the aisles and oozed into their seats. Almost the only ununiformed Deputy was Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, a Papal Chamberlain and Nazi-dom's valued link with Rome. His immaculate cutaway made a black plum in the brown Nazi pudding. For the first time since the War no Deputy was a Jew, a Communist, a Socialist, a woman...
...with even the Nazi anthem, the "Horst Wessel Song" (see col. 1). In crisp, commanding sentences, shouted in parade ground tones, Speaker Goring "requested" the Deputies to leap to their feet in unison when they wished to signify approval. Popping up and down like a roomful of marionets, the Reichstag transacted all business of the week in seven and a half minutes flat, re-elected Speaker Goring, elected three Vice Presidents, empowered Speaker Goring to appoint all committees and adjourned sine die, subject to the Speaker's call...
Pointedly absent was Chancellor Hitler. Night before the Reichstag met he had summoned all the Deputies, made them swear personal fealty to himself and then rushed off to Wilhelmshaven to greet the German battle cruiser Koln on her return from a round-the-world "goodwill cruise...
...must be retained. Van der Lubbe is not now of much use to the Brownshirts, for even they admit that he could have had no connection with the German Communist Party except as a dupe, and the Dutchman in his startling but sane moments confessed to having fired the Reichstag quite unaided by any of the other defendants, and since the main objective of the trial is to prove the guilt of the Reds and the white-as-driven-snow innocence of the Nazis, it is necessary to have one self-declared Communist at any rate up for high treason...
...Hays has just returned from the Reichstag Fire trial, and the Mock Trial in London. The subject of his speech will be "The Truth about Hitler Germany." Miss Schultz, who was one of the defendants in the Reichstag Fire trial, will talk about the conditions in German Concentration Camps...