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...aware of one thing: in the eyes of the world you will be a representative of that master face of German imperialism that, through robbery, ruthlessness and gangsterdom, through superiority of a scientifically developed system of terror, has erected a system of exploitation and suppression. The real masters will be the Krupps and the Görings. You are only needed as the slave driver, as the soldier who carries out police missions in the interest of his masters and who has, if necessary, to die in silence...
...international city room, with ex-New York Herald Tribune Foreign News Editor Joseph Barnes at the desk. From the wire services-and from Washington's suggestions-Editor Barnes picked items of interest, tossed them to six key writer-researchers of such caliber as Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror). Pointed or amplified, the items went next door to Stan Richardson's office. Richardson, checking for both State Department and industry, put them on a private teletype wire to receivers in each short-wave news room. Sample item...
...uncommon numbers. Presently the French police realized that these widows' weeds, this ostentatious grief were deliberate weapons in the Nazi war of nerves. Finally, nervously, the police arrested some, found, sure enough, they were professional mourners, not going to any funeral. Said Edmond Taylor, in The Strategy of Terror: they had been hired "to travel around in public conveyances wearing deep mourning and giving an exaggerated exhibition of seemingly uncontrollable grief for the purpose of depressing public morale...
Behind this image he would see himself as he once was, when he was the terror of Tiflis-the face harder, no fat on it; the hair black, unkempt; the mouth more defiant. Those were the days when he, a rude Georgian lad, had, by touching Russian dirt and blood, become Russia itself...
From Washington presently came a strangled cry: to give the contract to Currier would cause "a reign of terror" in the building trades in Michigan. In other words, A.F. of L. would probably strike $50,000,000 worth of building in the Detroit area, to say nothing of what it might do to defense projects elsewhere in the U.S. OPM's Hillman took the responsibility of making the final decision. Although the Currier Co. had already started work, Mr. Hillman ordered its contract withheld. Then came the hurricane...