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Hitler
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to prepare for emergencies, but that
he later Cancelled the order on learn
ing the attempt on Hitlers life had
failed. Blaskowitz since has been
absent from his headquarters 1t was
added.
Mr.. Churchill, now back in Brit
ain after three-day tour of the
Normandy front, gave the first off,
cial Allied word on the crisis in
Germany. While visiting an Raj
flying field in France yesterday, Mr..
Churchill declared there were grave
signs of weakness" in Germany. He
predicted the war might come to
an end earlier than we have alright
to say"
Declaring the Germans were not
happy on the fighting fronts, the
Prime Minister remarked:
And now, suddenly boiling up in
their stomachs, has come a deadly
quarrel at home. 1t is not a nice
thing for man to hear of a revo-
luton going on in his own country
when he is being attacked"
OF the attempt on Hitler's life.
Mr.. Churchill said with a grin:
They missed the old bounder
trough approximation)-but there's
time yet"
On the German frontier, the As
sociated Press learned from reliable
but secret channels that the Hmm
ler purge has barely touched the real
leaders and organizers of resistance
to Hitler, even though the Nazis ap-
parently had won the first major
battle with ell-organized internal
opposition.
Superf1cially, Germany today was
quiet, with SIS and Nazi-officered
units in apparently uncontested con-
troll, but the leadership of the inter-
nal opposition to the Nazis, except
for a very few gaps created by the
blood purge, has remained intact, the
frontier account said.
These secret sources declared the
only member of the high commit
tee opposition caught was Col. Gen.
Ludwig Beck, taken by accident
after he had been warned of i'm
pending arrest. and that Himmler
doesn't even know who the mem
bers of the committee are"
The committee and resistance or
Iganization has existed in Germany
more than half year" this infor-
nation said. Members include not
only the military but also represen-
tatives of the German Evangelical
and Catholic churches. The attempt
at Hitler's life was designed not to
overthrow the Nazis. for the opposi-
ton organization was well aware
that it would take more than liqui-
dation of the Fuehrer to oust the
Nazis. but was designed to show the
people of Germany that 1t is possible
to act against Hitler despite the SIS
and Gestapo."
Silent on Countermeasures.
Berlin was silent on the counter
measures taken against the German
officers whom Hitler said had
planned to kill him. German un-
easiness was underscored in these
things which were left unsaid:
l. Not a single general on the
eastern front, where the German
armies have been reeling back
toward their own borders, has come
forward personally to pledge loyalty
to the Fuehrer, though the Nazis
claimed blanket pledge.
2. With the exception of Col, Gen,
Ludwig Beck, former German gen.
eral staff chief. the names of the
plotters-the mad generals" de-
scribed by Reichsmarshal Hermann
Goering-stiil have not been an
nounced
3. Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels, the most effective
and probably the shrewdest of all
Nazi orators, has not appeared once
on the radio, nor has he been re-
ported at any meetings with Hitler
Berlin Reported Quiet.
Berlin itself was reported quiet,
though one Ankara report said the
capital was under a curfew.
A Stockholm newspaper said DR..
Robert Ley's attack on "blueblooded
swine" attracted great attention in
the German capital This state
ment by Hitler's trade union COM
missioner appeared to be a blanket
denunciation of the Junkers, who
are the core of the German nobility
and constitute an officer caste with
in the German Army.
Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian, newly
appointed by Hitler as chief of the
army general staff, directed a new
plea to German soldiers yesterday
to stand firm in fidelity to the
Fuehrer.
Asserting in a broadcast to troops
that the army has purged itself and
freed itself from unclean elements, i"
Gen. Guderian even called on the
memory of Marshal Won Hinden-
burg, termed the leaders of the re-
volt towards and weaklings" and
disclosed that some had been In ac-
tive service when they attempted a
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