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If there were not a George Dimitroff in the life of Hermann Wilhelm Goering, it might be necessary to invent one. When Comrade Dimitroff was on trial in the famed Reichstag arson case, Prussian Premier Goering, through whose official residence the fire bugs apparently entered, screamed in open court: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal !" This scene Elmer Rice has put into a play (TIME, Sept. 24).

Lately beefy, foppish Premier Goering has had two paramount worries: 1) Is Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Goering because eventually Hitler will do it."

Premier Goering controlled himself with difficulty. In anguish his political news-organ, the National Zeitung, called Dimitroff's prediction a "lie." Anxiously grooming Goering for the job of Hitler's Deputy, it went on: "The Realmleader's glance, if he must have a Deputy, falls more and more on his old and true fellow-fighter [Goering]."

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