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...specifications and photographs of an experimental tank and a new automatic rifle for infantry, also notes on the organization of tank and armored car units. Without special permission he had visited Berlin on leave. It was charged that he sold his secrets to a mysterious German known as Otto Waldemar Obst. Major Shapcott pointed out that Obst sounds like Oberst which means Colonel. (That Obst means "fruit" was not brought for-ward.) For these secrets it was charged that Baillie-Stewart received two letters signed "Marie Louise," one containing ten ?5 notes, the other four ?10 notes...
Socialists did not let the bill go through without one word of protest. Cried Deputy Otto Wels...
...nearly all Communist Deputies and many Socialist Deputies were in jail. The Hitler Government announced that no Communist Deputies (even should they break jail) would be admitted to the Reichstag. Most Socialist Deputies were expected to stay away, lest they be harmed. The bravest Socialist (by reputation), Dr. Otto Braun, Premier of Prussia, once famed as "The Lion of Social Democracy," fled to Switzerland where he was still so terrified that he telegraphed to Berlin his resignation from the Prussian Diet and from the German Reichstag...
...Mustard Flag!" President von Hindenburg's pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
...next few days he said he would contest, would not, left the decision to his lawyer, was grateful for Mrs. Walker's tactful charge of desertion, not adultery. Worried about cash, Mr. Walker was lazily writing magazine articles with Writer Frank Scully and hobnobbing with Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. He had given up writing an autobiography. He said his friend Betty Compton, with whom he is living, had finished her autobiography which "ought to be a swell book because she sure is one swell woman." Of his wife, who once in vaudeville sang his song, "Will You Love...