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...summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
News again last week was the broad-shouldered Judas of the Nazi Party, strap ping Gregor Strasser...
Last winter, after the Chancellorship had several times eluded Adolf Hitler's pudgy grasp, Herr Strasser, then National Organizer of the Nazi Party, decided that the fumble was likely to be permanent. Ambitious, he called secretly upon the then Chancellor, sly Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, famed as "His Field Grey Eminence." Somehow or other Leader Hitler learned what Strasser and Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that...
Thus confronted, the 30 deputies spurned Judas Strasser and repledged their loyalty to Leader Hitler who three weeks later became Chancellor. Because he knew too many Brownshirt secrets, Judas Strasser was not punished. Later, recalling that in Munich Herr Strasser used to keep a drugstore. Chancellor Hitler made him Commissar (Nazi supervisor) of the great Berlin chemical firm Schering-Kahlbaum A. G. Last week Commissar Strasser suddenly invited all Berlin correspondents to visit his plant...
Gingerly the corps of correspondents, none of them chemists, followed Judas Strasser through a maze of chemical apparatus...