A report of the speech delivered at Chester on Tuesday
in support of Lord Baldwin's Fund by Herr Gottfried Treviranus, who was Minister of Communications in Dr. Bruning's last Cabinet, carries me back to a brilliant spring day some five years ago, when I sat in the garden of Herr Treviranus' house at Wannsee and talked with the ex-Chan- cellor, who was still living in studious seclusion in Berlin. A few weeks later a lively drama was enacted in that same garden. Herr Treviranus was playing tennis, when his small daughter told him someone had driven up in a car to see him. He glanced at the road, saw that the visitors wore brown shirts, made for the garden wall and scaled it with a bullet whizzing past him. Fortunately his car was standing in a convenient place, and he was able to elude pursuit and finally take refuge with a friend, in whose attic he stayed concealed for several days, entertaining himself with Macaulay's History of Englund. Finally he managed to get to England and is now safe in Cheshire. Dr. Bruning is safe at Harvard.
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