GERMANY: Organization Konsul

A speedy Ford sedan was the clue that led to the arrest of 40 people in North Germany last week, reawakening German interest in the notorious Organization Konsul, bloodthirsty Nationalist secret society which was responsible for the assassinations of onetime Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger in 1921 and Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau in 1922.

For many weeks past small bombs have been bursting under assorted public buildings in Schleswig-Holstein and North Prussia. Three weeks ago another bomb, the eleventh in the series, burst noisily in the cellar...

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