The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-07
NQxi Political Truce
Outlets German Pulse
DER FUEHRER IN ALPS

Vt0 tut OF v0C&uOU TOT
Months Period
Copyright, 1884, By The Asoociatet
Press)
Berlin, July 7-(P-A political truck
was put into effect Saturday BY the
Nad high command In . determined
effort to efface all remaining traces
Of Qermanys bloody second revolu-
ton"
Chancellor Adolf Hitler left for hia
sumner home In the Bavartan Alp
for inspiration while his trusted sub.
leaders are also taking their first resi-
Stree their party's purging Of ''plotter,
and traitors"
Two million storm troopers, temper
ally stripped Of their uniforms. are
on q months vacation. Their future
has become dermany's foremost po.
litical problem. A powerful political
instrument, these peace time soldiers
are being treated as II they might
become greater in power than their
creators.
Vice Chancellor Franz Won Paper
when seen at his home Saturday
seemed in better spirits q II reflect
ms the prevailing tendency toward
political peace.
Won Papen's Guard Remains
The vice chancellor,S home Is still
under guard but he goes and comes
at will, occasionally visiting . nearby
church for prayer. While party chiefs
were gathering new strength, appar-
emily they were letting Won Papens
case drop for the moment.
There was intimation that Chan
cellor Hitlers short respite in the
Bavarian hills may be extended to 4
possibly longer vacation.
It was announced at the chancel-
lors office that no further cabinet
meetings are planned during July.
Hitler left exactly one week after
hn had flown to Munich and begun
his grim 'purging" Of storm troop
ranks with firing squads.
Concerning the storm troops, Nazi
leaders issued . careful statement
saying that they were inseparable
from the Nazi party.
It becomes more md more appar-
ent that the storm troopers, of which
Roehm was the leader, are not going
to be dissolved, as ha been indicated
Immediately after Chancellor Hitler
crushed the plot against his authority
which Roehm and others had hatch
ed. The troopers are now on a
months vacation.
Storm Troopers Reassured
The Nazis issued carefully
phrased statement Friday saying tina.
the storm troops and the Nazi party
belong to each other, and cannot be
separated. The statement was made
by Rudolf Hesse, minister without
portfolio, and was directed toward re-
assuring both troopers and the gen.
eral public that no drastic action was
contemplated.
Hitler,s newspaper, Voelischer Beo-
bachter proclaimed that:
The storm troops are proudly
carrying on, and remain loyal to Der
Fuehrer (Eitler). Even in civilian
clothes its members can easily be rec
ogni1ed."
Although Commander Herzog, Of
the storm troopers In 6ilesia. where
Catholics are uneasy, indicated the
stormers would return from their leave
to full strength, Hess and Victor Lutte
new chief Of staff. sidestepped the
point.
It was generally believed the per-
sonnet may be cut to as little as 20
per cent Of the present strength and
that hard physical, mental and NOR
81 tests win be used to weed out
large percentage Of the stormers.
This belief has grown among Ber-
lin troopers. causing increasing dis
content.
Won Papen Aides Released
Another placating force Saturday
was the release from police custody
Of three members Of the staff Of Vice
Chancellor Franz Won Papen with the
announcement they were not con-
nected with plots against the regime.
One Of the three, Fritz 0unther
Won Tschirsky. Won Papen's adjutant,
had been reported killed. The others
were Friedrich Karl Won Savigny, aI
secretary. and Gargarate Won stotxin-
gen Of the office force.
Won Papen's political future re-
mains uncertain.
Leaders were excited by the revela-
tiou that Hitler was nearly assass-
mated when he inaugurated his
'purging" campaign last. Saturday.
A reliable source there said Edmund
Heines, Breslau police chief. brand
ished Z revolver at the chancellor be-
fore he vas shot down b. one q Hit.
lars aides.
Lutse said there Vas nothing defi-
mite on tho projected STORM troop re-
organisation except that such course
would b necessary.
The Man preag department. PRONE
ised that . fun statement from Hit
Ter On the rebellion voulA be Issued
within . few days.
Dispatches from Rome said no
confirmation was availAble q reports
from London that Hitler has trans
lerred personal funds TO italian hank.
A known total q II killed during
the liquidation" q traitors w4s re-
ported fron 'lpn''h.