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Then at Munich there was the case of C. W. Woodside, instructor at the University of Toronto. His hotelkeeper heard him say to a fellow tourist, "I nearly got into trouble this morning. I saluted their Nazi anthem but not all the flags and a Storm Troop officer made me show him my passport before he would let me go." At this revelation, Instructor Woodside's eavesdropping Munich hotelkeeper shouted: "There is no place for you in this hotel," threw him bag and baggage out of his room...
...Trooper swung a left to Mr. Lepawsky's chin, knocked him back. But unlike most U. S. citizens attacked by Nazis, Messrs. Jones & Lepawsky beat no retreat. Instead, as soon as Delegate Lepawsky could recover, they rushed to the head of the marching column, demanded satisfaction from the Storm Troop Commander...
...primary duty was to establish a spy system which would report accurately all troop movements behind the German lines, plans for an offensive, the formation of new divisions, new types of guns and equipment, new methods of attack. Sensational means had been tried but it was the organization of routine train-watching posts which counted most...
Knife Night. For the next hour Chancellor Hitler's address rambled darkly among the alleged plots of the men shot by his orders. Tears streamed down his face as he told of a five-hour soul struggle between himself and Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm. "I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness. . . . The result of our conversation, however, turned out to be that Roehm, realizing he in no circumstances could count on me for his scheme, started preparations to eliminate me personally." The scheme (and Herr Hitler's allusions to it were maddeningly...
Economic Tsar. Behind the Storm Troop mutiny of last fortnight lay deep-rooted discontent and some of it was economic. Germany faces, due to drought, what may be her poorest harvest in years. Potatoes had tripled in price. Meat was ominously cheap as cattle which now cost too much to feed were rashly slaughtered. Next winter, as Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg well know, the German people must go back to eating what they hate- substitute foods...