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Germany's Day of Terror laD. 2'. 1939 Pap Nla. ARQtJIS DE LAFA y. ~------- Ge._ •• -------- ered its site. In one respect you ETTE, famous French behold us unaltered, and this is THIS AGE 'OF HURRY M hero of the American in the sentiment of continued war of Independence, at the age devotion to liberty and of ardent of 61 revisited this country from affection and profound gratitude By W. E. Hill to your departed friend, the July, 1824, to September, 1825. • American eloquence 11.03 played an important part in the history father of his country, and to you, He was received with popular of our country. From A long litt of famous speeches The Tribune applause and officially voted is seleCting gems of American eloquence which are to be presented and to your illustrious associates $200,000 and thlrty-stx square in this, the Graphic Section, every Sunday. The content Of these in the field and in the cabinet, miles of land. On the occasion speeches is important both historically and poZiticall2l. Men and for the multiplied blessinis 01 the hero's presentation in the boys learning to speak in public will find in them helpful lessons. which surround us, and for the ~ house of representatives in De- Speakers and wr,ters can learn A great deal from stUdying their very privilege of addressing you cember, 1824, Henry Clay, speak. style. The following 4sthe third of the series. which I now exercise. This sen- .>. I timent, now fondly cherished by "'r-'~ er of the house, delivered one r--.. of his most notable orations. have been, do times indUlged more than ten m1llions of people, ..! Here it is ih full: . not constitute that Providence w1ll be transmitted with unabat- (i'" ••General: The house of rep- the only motive would allow the ed vigor down the tide of time, resentatives of the United States, of the respect patriot, aft e r through the countless millions Impelled alike by its own feel· and admiration d eat h, to reo who are destined to Inhabit this I ~ ings and by those of the whole which the house t urn t 0 h is continent, to the latest pos- Little Edna, fed up on child- American people, c 0 u 1d not of representa- co u n try and terity." hood's happy hour, which can have assigned to me a more tives entertain to contemplate be pretty much of a bore, is try- gratifying duty than that of for you. Your the intermedi· ing out big sister's make-up presenting to you cordial eon- consistency of ate c han g e s Henry Clay is A good example accessories. She's in a hurry to gratulations upon the occasion character, your w h i c h h a v e of the pTO'Verbial great orator; grow up. of your recent arrival in the uniform de v 0- t a ken place: his speecheswere written in the The hurried dog United States, in compliance tion to regulat- to view the for- complex, fioNd style of hilt day, walkers. No with the wishes of congress, and ed liberty, in all ests felled, the and they lose much in cold print. dawdling along to assure you of the very high the vicissitudes cities buUt, the But when Clay thundered them the wayside. satlsractton which your presence of a long and mountains lev- in congress they were genuin~y Poor Mitzi never affords on this early theater of arduous 1i r e , eled, the canals great speaking. In order to ap- gets a chance to your glory and renown. AI· also commands cut, the high. preciate this speech to the Mar· investigate though but few of the members its admiration. ways construct- . quis DE Lafayette we need to 'Vis. those f ascina t- Who compose this body shared During all the ed, the progress ualize that scene in the hau,e: ing gutters. with you hi the war of our revo- recent eonvul- of the arts, the the listening representatives, the lution, all have, from impartial s ion s of Eu- advancement of old French generaZ-A man out history or from faithful tradt- rope. amid, as HENRY CLAY learning, and of America's historic past, and tlon, a knowledge of the perils, after the dis- the increase ot the dynamic Clay himself. the sutterings, and the sacrt- persion of, every p 0 Ii tic a 1 population. General, your pres- Clay uses cmevery noteworthy. fices which you voluntarily en- storm, the people of the Unit- ent visit to the United States is device to give power and point countered, and the signal servo ed States have beheld you, true a realization of the consoling ob- to the whole oration: the extend· ices, in America and in Europe, to your old principles, firm ject of that wish. You are in ED figure of the returning patri· which you performed for an and erect, cheering and anlmat- the midst of posterity. Every· ot, ending with the striking infant, a distant, and an alien ing with your well known voice where you must have been sentence, t( You are in the midst people; and all feel and own the votaries of liberty, its faith· struck with the great changes, of posterity." From thi8 arrest- the very great extent of the obli- ful and fearless champion, ready physical and moral, which have ing picture Clay builds in A gations under which you have to shed the last drop of' that occurred since you lett us. Even series of extremely speakable placed our country. But the blood which here you so freety this very city, bearing a venerat- sentences to his cZimax.-Com· relations Ih which you have ever and nobly sp1lled in the same ed name alike endeared to you ment by Martin Maloney of stood to the United States, Inter- holy cause. and to us, has since emerged Northwestern university school estlng and important as they " The vain wish has been some- from the forest which then cov- of speech. Germany's Day of Terror (Continued from page three.) leader and Hitler's ally in by· roar, appeared on the scene with gone days, had parted company a" Heil Hitler" on his trembling with him after the Fuehrer's re- lips. The Fuehrer asked that turn from Landsberg and had the disturbance be excused. held aloof even after Hitler's The cavalcade took the road rise to power, making no bones - about his sentiments, especially back to Munich with Roehm and the S. A. leaders as prisoners. for Goering, whom he utterly Whenever other S. A. leaders despised. Now he fell into Goe- were encountered driving their ring's trap and disappeared. cars toward Wiessee, Hitler ar- Long afterward the bodies of rested them.St1ll others were the stitt-necked old fighter, his gathered in as they arrived at son, and his chautteur were the railroad station in Munich, found in a wood near Muchberg coming from all parts of the in Brandenburg. reich. e e • The quick drinker, who wants the The death caravan reached Early in the afternoon of the effect in a hurry. Mixes a dynamite the Brown house, which had bloody Saturday four men of cocktail. People find themselves float- been occupied by the S. S. Ru- Goering's bodyguard stopped ing up to the top of Radio City in dolf Hess was waiting there their car at the villa of General about two minutes, singing, "Happy with everything in readiness. von Schleicher, former chancel- Days Are Here Again"! and Hitler had only to pass sen- tence, which he did, looking lor. They entered, and within a rather seedy and shouting him- few minutes both Schleicher and self hoarse. The condemned his wife were dead. men were transported to the old As usual, two versions exist. Stadelheim prison and there One of them is Goering's. His shot by s. S. squads under the Hitler leaving the EClIItPruulan re.idence of HindenbUf9 after a bed.lde brazen statement on July 1de- command of Major Buch. talk with the dying former field rDCD1Ihal.In center i. the famous soldier's clared that Schleicher had been Roehm was locked in a cell .on. Col. Oslcar von Hindenburg. (Acme photo.) k1lled because, finding himself with a revolver-a last act of faced with arrest, he had at- grace on the part of his Fuehrer. Berlin. Most of Goering's quar- in touch with Hitler, Or. Wil· tempted ••a lightning assault on The press of the world reported ry were k1lled in the former Ka- helm Frick, and Goering, who the men who had been ordered his SUicide. But he declined to dettenanstalt Lichterfelde, then had been in her house hundreds to arrest him." That explana- do Hitler this favor, and on july the barracks of the Hitler S. S. of times; Hitler was even the tion would not have accounted 1, according to a laconic state- Leibstandarte. One of his chief godfather of Gregor's twin sons. for the murder of Schleicher's ment published in the Zoelkisch· concerns was to account for the On July 7 she received an urn wife, and, indeed, Goering did er Beobachter on the following S. A. leader Karl Ernst, to whom containing her husband's ashes. not even bother to mention her. day, he was killed. Sepp Dle- had been delegated the actual It bore the number 16 and the The other version is embodied trich, leader of S. S. obergruppe laying of the reich stag fire, and inscription ••God with us!" in a letter alleged to have been ost and commander of Hitler's his S.
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