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Compared to the refined abruptness of Benito Mussolini or the violence of Josef Stalin in disposing of defective political tools, Adolf Hitler was, until last week, the Gentle Dictator. The accepted Brown House axiom "Once your friend. Der Führer is always your friend!" remained a potent Storm Troop recruiting slogan. One had only to scan the greedy, sensual, plug-ugly face of Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm; one had only to reflect that all Germany knew of his bull-like philandering with effeminate young men (TIME, March 20, 1933), to decide that since Chancellor Hitler stomached...
...order of Chancellor Hitler the S. A. boys were to turn in their uniforms July 1 and take a month's vacation. Already on vacation was Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm at his rustic snuggery near Munich. But in Berlin his sub-comrades kept pestering the Chancellor with demands that he dissolve the rival Stahl helm. Despite the fact that Storm Troopers hooted at Stahlhelm Leader Seldte and stoned his bodyguards a few weeks ago the Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania...
Taking off in the dead of night, Chancellor Hitler flew from Bonn to Munich where he arrived at 4 a. m. He accused Storm Troop leaders of treacherously plotting a coup against himself, brandished General Göring's proofs under their noses, flew into a passion and tore the Nazi insignia off their brown uniforms. S. S. troops with machine guns meanwhile bottled up the S. A. leaders in Chancellor Hitler's trap. Then leaping into a car the Chancellor dashed for queer Captain Roehm's luxurious snuggery...
...stamping out which followed scores of Storm Troop leaders, brownshirt potentates whose word has been law in their bailiwicks, were either shot by firing squads or were left alone in prison with a revolver which they used to commit suicide. The chancellor tried his hardest to make Col. Roehm shoot himself, twice sent him a pistol which came back with the defy, "If I am shot Hitler will have to do it himself...
...should I honor a traitor by shooting him!" fumed the Dictator. After long hours of bickering delay Prisoner Roehm was shot in the back next day by a firing squad. Since Storm Troop "daggers of honor" are engraved In Steadfast Faith To Roehm they were ordered broken, and the display windows of Chancellor Hitler's personal newsorgan abruptly stopped advertising the Autobiography of Ernst Roehm...