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Speaking to the Communist Party Congress in Moscow, Jew Kaganovich said he had received fraternal greetings from the Communists of Berlin. "To them I say fight hard for a Soviet Germany!" he shouted. "We too struggled underground for a long time. We, too, were arrested. Our people, too, were whipped during the Tsarist regime. We fought...
...when," asked bold Walter Duranty, "did you take that name?" Looking rather embarrassed, according to Duranty, Stalin replied, "Some of my comrades gave it to me in 1911 or maybe 1910. They seemed to think it suited me. You understand we 'underground' [i. e. terrorist] workers used such nicknames because we always had to hide from the Tsarist police...
...Paul Joseph Goebbels, now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, conceived the idea of firing the Reichstag, blaming Communists for the deed and using it as the excuse for Chancellor Hitler's suppression of the Communist, Socialist and other German parties; the legend that Nazi firebugs escaped down the underground passage connecting the Reichstag with the official residence of General Göring, leaving Van der Lubbe to wave his burning shirt in the Reichstag and be arrested...
...fire (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq.) Germans have been wondering what would happen if the Court should call beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and the No. 2 Nazi, as a witness. Would he deny that the firebugs escaped through the Reichstag's famed underground passage leading to the house of the Speaker, who was then Göring himself? Could he make plausible the Nazi charge that Communists set a fire which provided Chancellor Hitler with the opportunity to rush straight to President von Hindenburg, obtain dictatorial powers on the plea of national emergency...
...Verdun and other War-famed forts now reconstructed and equipped with guns that can easily fire into German territory, France has added two more monsters, Hackenberg defending the great industrial city of Metz, and Hochwald near the Rhine within easy shooting distance of Baden. Hackenberg is a marvel of underground mechanics, equivalent to ten dreadnaughts buried in a mountain, connected by poison-gas-tight tunnels and served by miles of subterranean railways on which projectiles and even guns can be rushed from point to point. Hochwald is almost entirely on the surface, a two-mile breastwork of cement and steel...