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...career buried when as a first lieutenant he sweated for two years through the jungles of the Philippines hunting down Aguinaldo. In 1902 his onetime commander, then in the White House, remembered him and sent him, as second secretary, to the U. S. Legation in Cuba. As a blasphemous trooper he was no more fitted for diplomacy than, as a court reporter, he had been fitted for soldiering...
...Berlin last week Storm Troopers were swinging past a crowded curbstone on which stood two U. S. civic experts, Albert Lepawsky, named by the State Department as a U. S. delegate to the International Union of Cities Convention in Lyons, France, and Secretary Howard P. Jones of the National Municipal League. When they failed to salute the Nazi swastika, a Storm Trooper broke ranks and rushed up to them with doubled fist...
Smack! The Storm 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...
Three days later the U. S. Consulate General at Berlin received official apologies from the German Government, plus suave assurances that the smacking Storm Trooper would be punished...
Both Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm denied over the telephone rumors that they had been shot. But the Government announced ominously that "a few more executions may soon be made known" and it was established that a Nazi trooper had shot the Chief of the Catholic Action Society, Herr Erich J. G. Klausener, charged with having been slated to be Minister of Transportation in some conspirator's government...