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According to official communiques there was no one in bed with Captain Roehm when Chancellor Hitler burst in, but in the adjoining bedroom Nazi Police Chief Edmund Heines of Breslau was nabbed with a young storm trooper between the sheets. "Certain sights were disclosed in the seizing of the rebels" read the communique "so pitiful that all feelings of compassion must end. . . . Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm's well known unhappy malady was gradually becoming unbearable, driving him into severest conflicts with his own conscience. . . . Der Führer has ordered this plague ruthlessly stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Blood Purge | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Once a Cossack trooper, His Majesty Riza Shah Pahlevi, King of Kings, showed in converse with the Turkish Dictator his customary habit of arriving swiftly at obstinate conclusions. Several times Dictator seemed vexed by Dictator, but only in political converse. When the talk shifted to soldiering both were in their element. With a strutting pageant of Turkish soldiery and Air Force maneuvers, Host Kemal so diverted Guest Pahlevi that the King of Kings prolonged his official visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brothers in Islam | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Persia sped a motorcade with Riza Shah Pahlevi. onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smashers' Palaver | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...starter for the People's Court will be a new public trial for the murderers of Horst Wessel. Everyone knows that the "Horst Wessel Lied" is Nazi Germany's unofficial anthem and greatest marching song.* Horst Wessel was also a man, an insignificant song writer and storm trooper, carefully chosen as a party hero because there was something in his background to appeal to almost every one of the heterogeneous groups that make up the Nazi party. Horst Wessel was the son of a well-known Lutheran pastor; that was for the Conservatives. He was a registered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: People's Court | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...Chowder Club came out in regalia, one clad in towels holding a "Down with Peace" sign, another in black robes with a bomb, another in boy scout togs tooting a bugle and leading cheers for "We Want War," and the prize of the lot clad as a Nazi Storm Trooper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "We Want Love" | 5/11/1934 | See Source »

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