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Ripe was the moment for a political terrorist to make tension between states of the Big Four, and this week in Paris an apparent attempt to assassinate German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck was narrowly averted. One Herschel Fripel Grynsztan, 17, a Polish Jew born in Hanover, Germany, who had been seeking sanctuary in France, asked permission to see the Ambassador, was refused, shot and gravely wounded German Embassy Secretary Ernst von Rath. Grynsztan babbled: "I had a divine mission."