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The Storm Troops are proudly carrying on without uniforms and remain loyal to the Führer," hopefully declared the Chancellor's personal newsorgan. "Even in civilian clothes our splendid Storm Troopers can easily be recognized!" With time to mull over the announcement that Herr Lutze was planning to slash their numbers from about 2,500,000 to an unarmed "political army" of some 800,000, they had the small satisfaction last week of hearing that their rivals of the Stahlhelm were being taken out of their uniforms too and sent off on a vacation until August 18.
Jitters— With Chancellor Hitler breathing the fresh, free air of the Bavarian Alps, a bad case of jitters sent Vice Leader Rudolf Hess of the Nazi Party, who is often called "Hitler's Other Self," dashing up to Königsberg, the picturesque capital of Old Paul's East Prussia. Shouting like one possessed over a nation-wide radio hookup, Orator Hess roared that the Storm Troops are not military, but that Leader Hitler has a right to condemn even guiltless Storm Troopers to death because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German to French. "Malheur pour nous! Malheur pour vous! Et malheur pour tout le monde!" puzzled Germans heard him shout. "An evil day for us! For you! And for all the world!"
*In Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss' official Wiener Zeitung stirred up a hornet's nest of official German denial by printing that Old Paul had just undergone a rejuvenation operation.