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■ LIKE all other civilized folk, members of Director J* Edgar Hoover's justice departmental Federal Bureau of Investigation are inexpressibly shocked by Herr Hitler’s Gestapo’s indiscriminate massacres, in Germanly conquered areas and even in the Reich itself, in retaliation for acts, of violence against Nazi functionaries in their various midsts, such as the assassination of Hangman Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia.What professionally disgusts FBI spokesmen, however, is the obvious inability , of the Gestapo agents, expert detectives as they call themselves, to catch the actual perpetrators of the killings they’re supposed to prevent but don't succeed in putting a stop to.The idea is that the FBI not only regards the German secret service as a gang of unmitigated wholesale murderers; it also despises ’em as utterly incompetent snoopers.It hates the Gestapo as much as anybody else does.Nevertheless, FBI operatives recognize that, if a staff of “tecs” is assigned to protect Nazi officialdom, it’s up .to that staff to PROTECT 'em, or, if it fails occasionally, to catch and punish the authors of what they consider an anti-N/zl outrage, now and again.U. S. Justice For instance, we have here a few Axis representatives, who have to be kept In suppression. But we don’t attend to ’em without trials. Before being so much as pinched, they have4- Ua *itpv#3 -f- CrlT^./3-t*1*of having a handful of anti-Nazfo in its makeup, but the Gestapo can’t spot the exact individuals. In such a situation the Gestapo’s system is to wipe out the whole community, to make sure that no. bet's being overlooked in the process.The FBI considers this method .. unscientific, as well as inhuman.The FBI boys are detectives—very classy ones, but, in principle, just like any otheijdetective corps, here or elsewhere'”;Now, the average town is afflicted by some criminals who ought to be caught—stickup men and various assorted outlaws. The local ’’tecs are anxious to get 'em. They don’t advocate arresting EVERYBODY, though, with no exceptions.The Gestapo aces—and not alone ARRESTING everybody, but kitting everybody who's arrested, and without a trial, either. True, there is a certain consistency in killing ’em all without trial, for trials might result in 10 or 15 per cent of acquittals.The FBI doesn’t, indeed, make this latter allowance in the Gestapo’s favor.Its judgment is that, in addition to being plain homicidal, Its crew are hamfats as detectives.Its theory is that, if the Gestapo wants to stop the asasAination of Nazis (provided the bumping off of a chap like Hangman Heydrich can properly be referred to as assassination), the birds who executed him should be landed. Otherwise, it’s a’ fair assumption that they’ll keep it up, or they wouldn’t have taken theiri it i /.Trtrt vn#iA*
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Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Jun 20, 1942
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