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...Otto Strasser, whose brother Gregor fought Hitler for control of the Nazi Party before being shot in the "Roehm Purge" in 1934, has completed plans to establish a floating radio station aboard a ship which will soon push out from its English base and cruise in the North Sea, whence it will send anti-Nazi propaganda into Germany...
Back in Germany, Ludecke did his aggressive best to keep Hitler out of bad company (Goring, Goebbels, Hindenburg, the industrialists), thought Roehm and Strasser the likely ones to help him. This proved a bad guess, and in 1933 Ludecke found himself in disfavor. On the day that Ludecke reached Manhattan, having escaped after eight months in a concentration camp as "Hitler's personal prisoner." he read the headlines announcing the Blood Purge. The shock left him rocking precariously on the pavement. But he had salvaged his life and a profitable store of Hitlerian anecdotes...
German, British and U. S. firms are currently engaged in an active struggle for U. S. sales of the best substitute for glass, in eyeglasses, binoculars, cameras and magnifying glasses, developed since Venetians invented spectacles in the 13th Century. Roehm & Haas Co. makes Plexigum, Plexiglas, Acryloid and Acrysol in Philadelphia; Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. sells Diakon and Perspex from its Manhattan office; Du Pont Viscaloid Co. makes Pontalite (TIME, Sept. 21, Dec. 28) and Lucite at Kearny...
Last week in Los Angeles a Roehm & Haas customer named E. G. Lloyd behaved more spectacularly. Calling in news photographers he pounded Acryloid eyeglasses with a machinist's hammer...
Author Jameson has shrewdly taken more than one leaf from recent history. To skeptical readers who might say, "It can't happen anywhere," she has only to point to Germany. But Frank Hillier and Sacker are not so much copies of Adolf Hitler and Ernst Roehm as translations of them into recognizable English types. Author Jameson has made an ominously plausible case. A Cassandra who hates what she foresees, she prophesies so graphically that, unlike Cassandra, she may be listened...