"IT'S ALL OVER."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 9

"IT'S ALL OVER."

HUSBAND BEHEADED.

WAS ONCE GERMAN M.P.

YOUNG WIDOW'S COURAGE.

(Special.—By Air Mail.) [ PARIS, November 5. "It's all over. . . ." The secretary kissed the pale, blue-eyed, fair young woman. There was silence. That was how, in the Paris office of the Committee for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners, Frau Stanim heard she was a widow. Her hueband, Robert Stamm, aged 37, once a German M.P. and trade union leader, was beheaded in Berlin. She turned deadly pale, fell heavily into an armchair, wept. For a few seconds nobody dared speak a word. It was she who broke the silence. In an amazingly firm voice, ehe said, "It's all over for him—-but not for us. We shall carry on." She had come to the committee's office to meet friends, including Frau Berg-Andre, widow of Edgar Andre, who was beheaded exactly one year ago, and go with them to a protest meeting.

Frau Stamru was to have spoken for her hueband and for Adolf Remote, another trade unionist condemned to death, who was executed along with Stamm. Now it was too late. But she said, "I'll go there, anyway, and I shall speak." And this is what she said to a crowded Popular Front meeting. "It is a hard blow for me, but I have no right to allow myself to be downhearted. "It would be againet the spirit and the teaching of my husband and of all his comrades either in gaol or still lighting secretly against Hitlerism.

"We have not been able to eave the lives of Andre, Rembte and Stamm, but we must save the others bv saving peace, which means by librralinj; fJernmiiy from the bloodstained tyrannv of Hitler. ,,