Terrorized Tourists

All over the Fatherland last week tourists leaped to their feet at sound of the Nazi anthem, raised their right arms as Nazi banners passed. They knew that five U. S. tourists who spoke no German had been beaten by Storm Troopers in quaint old Nuremberg for standing motionless and puzzled when ordered in German to salute.

Then at Munich there was the case of C. W. Woodside, instructor at the University of Toronto. His hotelkeeper heard him say to a fellow tourist, "I nearly got into trouble this morning. I saluted their Nazi anthem but not all the flags and a Storm Troop officer made me show him my passport before he would let me go." At this revelation, Instructor Woodside's eavesdropping Munich hotelkeeper shouted: "There is no place for you in this hotel," threw him bag and baggage out of his room.

In Berlin last week Storm Troopers were swinging past a crowded curbstone on which stood two U. S. civic experts, Albert Lepawsky, named by the State Department as a U. S. delegate to the International Union of Cities Convention in Lyons, France, and Secretary Howard P. Jones of the National Municipal League. When they failed to salute the Nazi swastika, a Storm Trooper broke ranks and rushed up to them with doubled fist.

"We are Americans!" cried Messrs. Jones and Lepawsky. "We are foreigners!'

Smack! The Storm Trooper swung a left to Mr. Lepawsky's chin, knocked him back. But unlike most U. S. citizens attacked by Nazis, Messrs. Jones & Lepawsky beat no retreat. Instead, as soon as Delegate Lepawsky could recover, they rushed to the head of the marching column, demanded satisfaction from the Storm Troop Commander.

"There he is!" cried Delegate Lepawsky, dashing in among the Storm Troopers and pointing at his attacker. "There's the man who hit me!"

Three days later the U. S. Consulate General at Berlin received official apologies from the German Government, plus suave assurances that the smacking Storm Trooper would be punished.

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