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...pundits rode in on a powerful historical groundswell, which really began with the Munich Crisis of 1938. That crisis became a great personal triumph for healthy, hearty, opinionated Hans von Kaltenborn. He was the only important commentator on the U.S. air at the time who was ready for it. He had a good idea of what Munich meant and said so. He was ahead of the printed press and the other networks...
...much that the students did. Most of them were reared under Hitler's National Socialism, drilled in its rituals, supposedly imbued with its doctrines. But something went wrong. In once-famed, once-liberal University of Munich there was unrest in the corridors and ugly whisperings in the nearby beer halls. When a high Nazi official addressed the students they stamped their feet in a chorus of disapproval. As last they shouted "gemig" (enough), walked out en masse...
...Munich's Gauleiter, Herr Giesler, put his spies to work and arrested three "ringleaders," Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst. They were described as typische Einzelganger (typical individual cranks), tried before a Nazi People's Court, found guilty of spreading defeatism and "encouraging sabotage in our armaments by means of leaflets...
...that the outside world knew on Feb. 22 was that Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had been beheaded. Since then other Munich citizens have laid their heads on the block before a white-gloved axman: Kurt Huber, a professor of psychology for 17 years; a lad who exchanged a leg at Stalingrad for the Iron Cross, First Class; at least nine other students. By last week it was apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain...
...States. But I would remind the reader that the problems Mr. Hoover discusses are bone of my bone as well as of his, and that in our common peril I believe it is my right to differ with Mr. Hoover in print as I did with Mr. Chamberlain over Munich...