The Munich Bomb Story
No one is surprised that Herr Himmler, Chief of the German Police, has succeeded in finding a scapegoat for the bomb explosion in the Munich Beer Cellar on November 8th, or that the investigations have been so manipulated as to attribute the blame to the British Secret Service. The only surprise is that Mr. Churchill is not personally impli- cated. The German official statement gives a detailed account of the laborious devices by which Georg Elser contrived to commit a crime declared to have been organised by Otto Strasser, and instigated and financed by the British Intelligence Service. Elser was arrested, it is stated, on the night of the crime. The full incriminating evidence is alleged to have been collected by the Police Special Com- mission before November i4th, when Georg Elser, under what pressure of Third Degree examination we are not told, made full " confession " about his own crime and his accomplices. It is strange that the police, when they already had such abundant proof of the author of the outrage and knowledge of all that happened, should continue to offer rewards to anyone who could give information and issue a description of the wanted man. The whole story is a con- coction according to recipe. It is too clumsy to deceive any but the most credulous of Germans. No one outside Germany will give a moment's credence to the invention that the British Secret Service or its agents had anything to do with the crime. This country, no doubt, like every belligerent country, is alert in the search for military news, but its record is a guarantee that assassination is not among its weapons.
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