Author, Hunter, Policeman

Among costumes affected by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy Hermann Wilhelm GOering who holds more offices in Germany than anyone else, is a blue velvet robe made like the toga of a Roman Emperor, complete with a tame lion cub trained to sit impressively beside Prussian Premier GOering's desk.

Last week General GOering was about to become an author. On the 75th birthday of Wilhelm II (see col. 2), one of Berlin's great publishing houses was to bring out I Am a Monarchist by Hermann Wilhelm GOering. Unfortunately, No. 1 Nazi Adolf Hitler decided fortnight ago that the Party is not Monarchist (TIME, Jan. 29). Hastily Author GOering changed the title of his book from I Am a Monarchist to The Building of a Nation. Even then its publication was delayed last week by General GOering's keenest rival, that club-footed imp of spite Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the No. 3 Nazi.

Chafing with spleen General Goering filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GOering. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland."

Three days later Chancellor Hitler was making progress in his chambers on the Wilhelmstrasse toward solution of the strife between Reichsbischof Ludwig Miller and the 7,000 Emergency Lutheran Pastors when in stormed General GOering.

"I come as Chief of the Police of Prussia!" he shouted, banging the Chancellor's door behind him. What more General GOering said remained an exciting secret last week, but he was understood to have urged use of the full power of Prussia's police and Storm Troops to "break" pastors who do not conform to Nazification of the Church.

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