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...getting their hats tucked under the seats. As the play continues its uneven but earnest way, it develops that someone with a cold hand has been perpetrating the various assaults and murders, someone, most likely, in the police department, for the constabulary of this mythical municipality is evidently a gang of thoroughgoing rogues. The question is: who is the owner of the cold, paralyzed hand...
Fascist Hitler does not want to become a political Al Capone. He much prefers his party (12,000,000 voters) to his Gang (150,000 "storm troops"). Abruptly last week he ordered the Gang to make no resistance of any kind to President Paul von Hindenburg's decree suppressing freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and free speech (TIME, April 6). When this order, telegraphed from Weimar, reached Storm Captain Walter Stennes in Berlin he passionately told his men: "This Hitler is a dishrag...
Perhaps not profiteers but certainly wealthy men have supplied "Handsome Adolf" with the wherewithal to pay each member of his Gang eight marks per day ($1.90). When Storm Captain Stennes went to the Hitler bank in Berlin to cash a check for further storm funds a very mild but very firm cashier refused his check...
Prudently, Adolf Hitler gave his Gang time to think things over. He set a date nine days distant after which any insubordinate gangster would be expelled from the ranks. Expelled last week, however, were Storm Captain Stennes and two aides. Glowering, they prepared to doff the swastika (armband Hitler emblem. See cut). But they also talked of founding a new party, said that storm commanders in Brandenburg. Pomerania. Mecklenburg and East Prussia had promised to join them...
...game" of Adolf Hitler, as some German correspondents reported last week, is to tone down his Gang, moderate his policies and try to get one or more Fascists into the next German Cabinet. There is danger, indeed great likelihood, that many disgruntled Fascist gangsters-toughs who like direct action-will hire out to the Communist gangs. Such men see no sense in the only action Leader Hitler took last week against President Hindenburg's gag decree: he hired lawyers, had them get ready to bring suit on the ground that the gag is unconstitutional...