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When a night-club party of Frenchmen indomitably stated their right to continue sipping champagne, boiling-mad Nazis pulled the cloth off the Frenchmen's table with an impressive clatter, bellowed, "Schweinehunde! dancing and guzzling after midnight when 6,000,000 Germans are without work and food!"
The Frenchmen departed, the Nazis not daring to touch them because of the might and proximity of France.
"Blindest Discipline." Addressing his Nazis by radio, Dictator Hitler cried: ''As your leader, and in the name of the Government of National Revolution, I call upon you to guard the honor and dignity of the new regime—that it may pass with honor and dignity into history. . . . Henceforward the fight for cleaning up and setting the Reich in order will be a planned fight, directed from above. I therefore enjoin on you, from now on, the strictest and blindest discipline. Henceforward all individual actions must cease!"
"Pure Rising." Naturally a new Dictator's thoughts turn to securing the rights of private property & capitalist enterprise. "It is our task," postulated Dictator Hitler, "to give the German people and. above all. German business a feeling of unquestioned security. ... In commanding you [Nazis] to safeguard the purity of our National rising, I also thank you for the excess of faithfulness, discipline and sacrifices that you have made for me."
Absurdity & States. The absurdity of endowing a nation simultaneously with two national flags will be rectified, Germans understood last week, by an act of the Reichstag to superimpose the Nazi swastika on the former black, white & red Imperial banner, thus creating a brand new flag for Germany.
Much like U. S. banks, the German states have been highly jealous of their independence, have ever resisted that complete national unification for which even Prince Bismarck strove in vain. Last week, while U. S. banks were hurrying to apply for membership in the Federal Reserve system, Dictator Hitler sent Storm Troops to bring all German states under his Government's centralized authority. In a twinkling that was accomplished which might otherwise have taken years. Most dramatic was the merging of Bavaria.
In Munich polite siege was laid to the State Government of Catholic Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Tiavaria by apple-cheeked youngsters trying to look grim in their brown shirt uniforms. They were led by Captain Ernst Roehm, the National Storm Troops' queer sub-commander.* Premier Held, reluctant to have dealings with such a person as Captain Roehm, nevertheless accepted a decree signed by President von Hindenburg (under his emergency powers to seize any part of Germany "if there be danger of Communist excesses").
About 4 p. m., when Captain Roehm again called on Dr. Held, the Premier resigned after stating the fact that "conditions for the application of this decree are completely lacking, because peace and order and prevention of Communist excesses are secured beyond a doubt by the resources of the State."
Ousted ex-Premier Held telegraphed to the Berlin Dictator his protest and abhorrence of Dictator Hitler's methods. Then, clapping on his hat, he walked out through serried ranks of Captain Roehm's young men.