- The expedition to Coburg in October, 1922. Certain “nationalist” societies had decided to hold a “German Day” at Coburg. I was invited to take part, with a recommendation to bring some of my friends with me. I picked eight hundred men of the Storm Detachment to go with me to the little town, which had become part of Bavaria, by special train.
At the station at Coburg we were met by a deputa¬ tion of the organizers of the “German Day”, who announced that it had been “arranged”, at the orders of local trades unions, i.e., the Independent and Com- munist Party, that we should not enter the town with our flags flying and our band playing (we had a band of forty-two musicians), and should not march with closed ranks. I rejected these shameful conditions forthwith, and did not fail to express to the gentlemen, who had arranged this “Day”, my astonishment at their negotiating with such people and coming to an agree¬ ment with them, and declared that the Storm Detach¬ ment