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(TIME, Aug. 15). Winning Nazi support last year, he definitely promised them Cabinet posts should he and other militarists succeed in setting up a Government. What Adolf Hitler was slow in realizing was that von Schleicher never had the slightest intention of allowing Nazis to run the government no matter how many votes they rolled up in a Reichstag election. Last week Hitler and von Schleicher went to the mat. Handsome Adolf, spurred on by his still more violent lieutenants, held out for complete control of the government. Sly von Schleicher offered him in turn first the Vice Chancellorship, an empty honor, with the Prussian Premiership thrown in; then the Ministry of the Interior and a series of minor posts. Finally possible was a compromise whereby Adolf Hitler might become Chancellor of Germany so long as Kurt von Schleicher remained Minister of Defense with the Nazi storm troops enlisted in the army as unarmed labor battalions. This might have saved everybody's face but for President von Hindenburg. The old Field Marshal whose mind is a little slow at following the niceties of political intrigue put his rheumatic foot down at handing the Chancellorship to the man who had opposed him for the presidency, the man whom he secretly considers a ne'er-do-well opportunist.
Infelicitous
Formidable Frau Tony Sender, 43, Reichstag Deputy and member of the Social Democratic party, is one of the best known women politicians in Germany. Recently an opponent referred to her in debate as Die Sexappealische Fräulein. Sex-appeal is a fighting word to Spinster Sender. She immediately sued for slander. Last week three white-cravatted Berlin judges rendered their decision: It is no slander in the German Reich to accuse a lady of possessing sex appeal, "but the expression is infelicitous and not in very good taste."
Frau Sender took the decision hard.
"This is a curse!" she shouted. "I am outraged!"
*In the early part of the War one Quartermaster Henriet of the French Luneville Dragoons led a cavalry patrol on reconnaissance in the Vosges Mountains. They suddenly found themselves miles behind the German lines completely cut off from their own troops. All but five were killed or captured. The five hid safely in the forests, and there for two and a half years they stayed. In time other French stragglers reached them until there were 15 men in the band. They waged a little war of their own, hiding by day, raiding German supply trains by night for food to keep from starving. One of their number finally betrayed them. The 15 guerillas were captured, court-martialed and sentenced to death, for not only had they killed a score of German soldiers but military authorities imposed the death penalty automatically on enemy soldiers who passed more than a fortnight behind the lines without surrendering. An orderly read out the names: "Henriet, Quartermaster of the Luneville Dragoons, son of M. Henriet & Mme nee de Gail." A German officer sprang up to demand if Quartermaster Henriet was related to the von Gayls of East Prussia. He was. The whole case was reported to the Kaiser by the Grand Duchess of Baden, friend of the family, and the sentences of all 15 men were commuted to internment in a prison camp.