Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death penalty in France, except by commutation of sentence or pardon, unless he can be extradited to some other country. He is a Polish citizen and if extradited to that rather anti-Semite country would undoubtedly fare worse than in France. For President Albert Lebrun to pardon the assassin or commute a death sentence on Herschel Grynszpan to life imprisonment would be to provoke openly Adolf Hitler, who would also be provoked by any attempt to prove the assassin insane. Thus far all Grynszpan's statements have been perfectly coherent admissions that he killed voni Rath for perfectly obvious...
...Assassin Grynszpan, further grilled by detectives of the French Surete Generate last week in efforts to find out whether he had accomplices, sobbed over & over: "My motive was love of the Jewish people!" (see below...
...Intellectual Originators." Referring to the assassin, Der Angriff libelously insinuated: "It is no coincidence that Grynszpan took the same line followed by Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper and their associates...
...Paris the Jewish aunt and uncle of the assassin were arrested and it was revealed that just prior to the killing of vom Rath they were held under arrest for five days on suspicion of harboring an undesirable alien. Their papers were seized and the French Surete Generale probed to discover who really were the "intellectual originators" of the crime...
...happy hours of horseshoe-pitching in Topeka, Kans. to be ambassador to Soviet Russia. His one desire is to get fired. He kicks the Nazi ambassador in the belly and the world cheers. He takes a potshot at a stranger who turns out to be a dangerous counter-revolutionary assassin, and the Soviet Union goes hysterical with gratitude. Only when Alonzo tries to do a good deed is he promptly booted...