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Orator Göring, who was wearing for this popular occasion scarcely any of his medals, and these few on the brown shirt of a simple Storm Trooper, roared that "the courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly...
...Professor Dodd. They highly approved the arrival of Ambassador Wilson in faultless full dress, white tie and the black waistcoat correct in Europe on such occasions. Der Führer, although he addresses the Reichstag and makes nearly all his public appearances in the khaki of a simple Storm Trooper, received Ambassador Wilson dressed exactly like...
Died. Sir James MacBrien, 59, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; of cancer; in Toronto. A hard-bitten trooper who once said, "Security without peace is better than peace without security," Sir James mechanized the red-coated Mounties, giving them motorcars, airplanes, motorcycles, motorboats...
...Philadelphia, around the corner from the home of Mayor S. Davis Wilson's secretary, a State trooper was discovered last week eavesdropping on the secretary's tapped telephone line. Choleric, ambitious Mayor S. Davis Wilson immediately exploded : "I challenge the Governor and his minions! . . . This is worse than Russia ... a despicable conspiracy ... to destroy me and my family! ... To think that the man responsible for this sort of thing wants to be President of the U. S.! . . . My God, this goes to the fundamentals of our Government! ... I want to announce here and now that...
Explanation: The trooper was working for the Governor's legislative commission which is investigating Pennsylvania's courts. Promised soon by the commission: "Revelations" at public hearings...