Evening star., 1934-07-07
TRUCE IS EFFECTED
AS HITLER LEAVES
berlin FOR ALPS
Nazis Seek to Eradicate
Remaining Traces of
Recent Revolt.
STORM TROOPERS FATE
is FOREMOST PROBLEM
Reduction of Force to 20 Per Cent
Is Expected-Three Members
of Won Papen Staff Freed.
copyright. 1884. by the Associated Press.

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copyright. 1894. by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July IA political truce
was put into effect today by the NaA
high command in a determined effort
to efface all remaining traces of
Germany's bloody second revolu-
ton"
Chancellor Adolf Hitler left for his
for inspiration while his trusted sub
rest since their party's purging Of
"plotterS and traitors"
Storm Troopers on Vacation.
Two million storm troopers, tenn
porarily stripped of their uniform,
are on a months vacation. Their
future has become Germany's FORE
most political problem. A powerful
political instrument, these peace
time soldiers are being treated as if
they might become greater in power
than their creators.
Vice Chancellor Franz Won Papen
when seen at his home today seemed
in better spirits, as if rejecting the
prevailing tendency toward political
peace.
He wore a generous smile which
completely masked his feelings re-
garding recent climatic events which
many believe represented his own
narrow escape from death.
MY plans are not yet complete"
he told the Associated Press. Every
thing is still unsettled"
The vice chancellor's home is still
under guard, but he goes and comes
at will, occasionally visiting a nearby
church for prayer. While party chiefs
were gathering new strength, appar-
emily they were letting Won Papens
case drop for the moment.
Vigilance Is Continued.
Despite the political truce, the
propaganda ministry indicated that
special vigilance on all fronts by the
secret police will continue undimin-
iShed.
There was intimation that Chancel-
lor Hitler's short respite in the Ba-
varian hills may be extended to a pos
sibly longer vacation.
1t was announced at the chancel-
lor'S Office that no further cabinet
meetings are planned during July.
Hitler left exactly one week after
he had flown to Munich and begun his
grim "purging" of storm troop ranks
with firing squads
Concerning the storm troops, Naz1
leaders issued a careful statement
saying that they we're inSeparable
from the Nazi party.
The work of one would be sense
less without the other" the state
ment said.
Hitler's newspaper, Voelkischer
Beobachter. proclaimed that:
THE storm troops are proudly car
rying on, and remains loyal to Der
Fuehrer CHitler). Even in civilian
clothes its members can easily be
recognized"
Although Comdr Herzog Of the
storm troopers in Silesia, where Cath
olics are uneasy. indicated the storm
erS would return from their leave to
full strength, Rudolf Hess, minister
without portfolio, and Victor Lutte,
new chief of staff, side-stepped the
point.
Hard Tests Foreseen.
1t was generally believed the per-
Sonnel may be cut to as little as 20
per cent of the present strength and
that hard physical, mental and
moral tests will be used to weed out
large percentage of the Stormers.
This belief has grown among Ber-
lin stormers, causing increasing dis
content.
Hess reinsurance that "the party
still has in the storm troops the same
organization as before" were inter
preted as the start of a campaign to
quiet grumblings.
Another placating force today was
the release from police custody of
three members of the staff of Vice
Chancellor Won Papen with the an
nouncement they were not connected
with plots against the regime.
One of the three, Fritz Gunther Won
Tschirsky, Won Papen's adjutant, had
been reported killed. The others were
Friedrich Karl Won Savigny, a secre-
tary, and Margarate Won Stotzingen
of the Office force.
Won Papen's political future re-
mains uncertain.
Leaders were excited by the revela-
ton that Hitler was nearly aSSaSsinated
when he inaugurated his 'purging"
campaign last Saturday. A reliable
source there said Edmund Heines,
Breslau police chief, brandished re-
volver at the chancellor before he was
shot down by one of Hitler's aides.
Still Respect Stormers.
Hess, in an interview, said "the
Nazi party now has the same great
respect for the storm troops as before.
Every National Socialist knows
what the Brown Army has undertaken
and achieved in the time of struggle"
he said.
Lutte said there was nothing def
mite on the projected storm troop re-
organization except that such a course
would be necessary.
''The storm troop ought not be
ashamed because of a small circle of
erstwhile leaders and traitors" he
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