Foreign News: Purge G

If there were not a George Dimitroff in the life of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, it might be necessary to invent one. When Comrade Dimitroff was on trial in the famed Reichstag arson case, Prussian Premier Göring, through whose official residence the fire bugs apparently entered, screamed in open court: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal !" This scene Elmer Rice has put into a play (TIME, Sept. 24).

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