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Paul Gurtler, Sudeten-born Canadian citizen and, during World War I, immediate superior (sergeant) of a wispy corporal named Adolf Hitler; as a Canadian private...
Within an hour of the Leader's death on May 12, 1935, 49-year-old Edward Smigly-Rydz* became Inspector-General (or Generalissimo) of the Army, Fourteen months later he had the Premier send out a circular to all Government ministries proclaiming him "Second Citizen" of the Republic, next in rank in every way to the President, who by the Constitution was Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Last week the President signed his own superiority away. Marshal Smigly-Rydz was made Commander-in-Chief, was designated successor to the Presidency in case of vacancy before the war ends. President...
...European war was the tall, athletic, dressy, rich, charming U. S. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who, without training, has proved himself an intelligent, far- sighted diplomat. He could do nothing about U. S. ships, but he quickly moved most U. S. citizens out of killing range, persuaded them to sell their property or move it with them. One citizen he did not move: his wife. One property which remained in American hands, and was bombed: his house in the suburbs which he had bought for the precise purpose of avoiding bombs in Warsaw...
London has been divided into ten medical zones, each containing 20 first-aid stations and one large central hospital. As soon as a citizen is felled by steel scraps or toppling masonry, he will be carried to the nearest first-aid station, or picked up by one of the numerous trucks ("mobile units"), which, manned by doctors, will cruise around stricken areas. Smaller first-aid stations are set up in public laundries, baths, and in most public buildings. Almost all stations are equipped with shower baths to "decontaminate" victims of poison...
Died. Hans Kundt, 70, soldier of fortune, German commander of the Bolivian Army during the Gran Chaco War; in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1918, mustered out of the German Army, Kundt migrated with his family to Bolivia, became a Bolivian citizen. When the Chaco war broke, Bolivia made him head of the Army, cashiered him when he failed to whip Paraguay...