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r • This typ* of bflhirior 1A 11 luatrated even moro olaarly In to Gregdr Stras««r becauaa the occasion Wag on* of to Hitl«r. 5t ratio er threatened to split tho Party If a definite program could net l?s agraad upon* Hitler a?aided the v _ situation as long as ha possibly oould in tha hop* tlidt aomfrttiing night happen,that tlia situation would aorcahcnr «O1TO itanlf* Whan It did not ha agrasd to $traappn*rfl damand for a meeting in Lslpii^ at nhtch their dlfToraocae could bn thrash ad out- Str&auer was in th» restaurant at the appointed hour* hitler cwaa l»te- Hardly had h» s*t down to the tabls wri«n he axoused hinuelf in ordsr to •! gp to thn toilat. Straaaor waits; for s n s tlm* and did not return he bagan maJdn^ inquiries* To his aniaiamont ha dUooTtrsd that instead of goine to the toilet Hitler had alippod ait of the back doer and driTen back to Munich without discussing a al^gle point. (379) ^. _ Heiden (527J slio tells u& that in 1&23 h* wa» in oon- ferenae with LudendorfT whan hs suddenly ruahdd off without a* much as *n apology. In th* spring of 1333 ha ran out on a nutat- ing of the Varband BayrJl^char Industriellar before *±oh ha was to gpmk. Thiju group was aot kindly disposed to him but i t waa im- portant for Hitler to irin them orer« lie got up to spaak: t slaht auf den aieht aioh verbluefft an. peinlioh* Ploetilioh dreht sloh Hitlar ftuf dem AbantB urn und g«ht ohne ein itort an dl a The »n« thin£ happened a yaar la tar when, as Chanaallor, he «peak to the Ra^chvVerbanl dar D^utsohen Frajfle. Jgain h s to X opposition in the group and again hft fled from th« soene* Olden REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES