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Fourteen of the 17 states and free cities in the German Republic filed protests last week against President Paul von Hindenburg's decree lifting the ban on Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted "Storm Troops" (TIME, June 27). In Munich, hot-headed Bavarians talked of remaking their Free State into a Bavarian Monarchy, restoring the House of Wittlesbach. Deposed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria naturally tried to hasten the popular ferment, stopped just short of high treason to the German Republic...
Spunky old Dr. Heinrich Held, Premier of the Free State of Bavaria, made good last week his recent threat to President von Hindenburg that no matter what the Federal Government may do, the Bavarian Government will not permit Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops to appear brown-uniformed on Bavarian soil (TIME, June...
Wide awake were the Bavarian police. Loyal to Dr. Held they hurled themselves upon the Storm Troops, clubbed them with truncheons, tore off as many brown uniforms as they could, sent the Hitlerites scampering to cover in their underclothes...
...least chance existed of a Hohenzollern restoration up North, argued Bavarian editors, then certainly the Free State of Bavaria must consider whether to restore as King her popular Rupprecht, discarded when Crown Prince in 1918. Excitedly at Karlsruhe met three South German champions of states' rights: Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria; Premier Dr. Eugen Bolz of Wurttemberg, Premier Dr. Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result...
...affairs, accused Chancellor von Papen of intending to force upon Prussia as the head of that state a Federal commissioner. Dr. Held also denounced Baron von Gayl's complimentary reference to Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops, declared that whatever the Federal Government might do the Bavarian Government would not permit Storm Troops on its soil...