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High above the battleship New Mexico still floated the four-starred flag of the CINCUS. And below decks, for the next five days, tall, slow-spoken Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief U. S. Fleet, worked at his desk, writing, reading, conferring. At week's end the blue flag came down and the CINCUS, in mufti, went over the side. That day he took a plane for Washington, this week sat down to talk with Secretary of the Navy Frank William Knox...
...this was one more headache to the hamstrung Government of Vichy. But there was a modicum of cold comfort in the fact that it had also become a headache for the Germans. Harried little Vice Premier Pierre Laval, summoned to Paris by German Ambassador Otto Abetz, returned to Vichy last fortnight and ordered General Maxime Weygand to Morocco to see what could be done. But last week General Weygand was still in Vichy, although no longer a member of the Pétain Cabinet...
Safe in Portugal, after a report last month of his capture by the Nazis in Paris, was grim, Hitler-hating Otto Strasser, leader of the subterranean Black Front, who hope some day to erase the Nazi Führer...
...years of World War I. He led the workers' militia against the generals who tried to over throw the Weimar Republic in the Kapp Putsch. His elder brother, Gregor Strasser, was Hitler's first Gauleiter (district leader). Brother Gregor, whose secretary was Heinrich Himmler, converted reluctant Brother Otto to the Nazi cause. Then both went into Nazi publishing, hired away from their enemies a live-wire propagandist-Paul Joseph Goebbels. Later Otto Strasser broke openly with Hitler. Brother Gregor did not break away. He resigned his Party posts but stayed on. In the June Purge he was liquidated...
Last week, under the somewhat ambitious title Hitler and I, was published Otto Strasser's story of Hitler's past. Few books gave promise of being more enlightening. But this one did not quite live up to its promise. Valuable is its firsthand account of the rise of the Nazis and the Strasser role in it. Valuable too were the intimate glimpses and records of Nazi big shots; of Hitler in conversation with Ludendorff, Hindenburg, his sub-leaders; a vivid account of the June Purge, its debunking of Hitler's part in it; the chronicles...