Undressing & Upholding

Spunky old Dr. Heinrich Held, Premier of the Free State of Bavaria, made good last week his recent threat to President von Hindenburg that no matter what the Federal Government may do, the Bavarian Government will not permit Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops to appear brown-uniformed on Bavarian soil (TIME, June 20).

Paying no attention to Dr. Held, President von Hindenburg lifted the ban on Storm Troops last week throughout Germany. In Munich several thousand Storm Troopers put on brand new brown uniforms, paraded toward the residence of Dr. Held. "Hail Hitler!" they chanted. "Germany Awake!"

Wide awake were the Bavarian police. Loyal to Dr. Held they hurled themselves upon the Storm Troops, clubbed them with truncheons, tore off as many brown uniforms as they could, sent the Hitlerites scampering to cover in their underclothes.

No joke, this defiance to the Federal Government was called "miniature civil war" by Berlin papers hostile to Bavaria. Dr. Held excused his undressing of Hitlerites as "necessary to uphold States' rights."

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