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Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 32, American-born, internationally famed concert violinist, and second wife Diana Gould Menuhin, 34, British actress and ballet dancer: their first child (his third), a son; in Edinburgh, Scotland. Name: Gerrard. Weight...
...dressed themselves up in German uniforms and started out in broad British daylight to see whether Britain was on the qui vive. Bareheaded, without overcoats, one in the blue of a Luftwaffe officer, the other in German infantry grey, they first took a pleasant bus ride from London to Gerrard's Cross 17 miles away. They talked socially with their fellow passengers in guttural, Germanic English. One passenger thought they were Russians, others favored the hypothesis that they were Poles or Czechs. They asked questions of a British Army captain-who answered them...
Leaving the bus just outside of Gerrard's Cross, they inquired the way to town of an R.A.F. officer, who graciously obliged. "Guten Morgen," said the polite men in the German uniforms...
When they dropped into the Gerrard's Cross police station to report their intentions, they ran into an eccentric Briton, Sergeant Donald Robbie, who whipped out a pistol and backed them against the wall. But, having disillusioned the Sergeant, they spent an agreeable two hours strolling the town. Everywhere they talked snatches of German and their Germanic English. In a workmen's pub the proprietor recognized one of them as a former vacuum-cleaner salesman named Harry Pringle who had sometimes called before the war. Said the proprietor to Harry Pringle: "What are you doing in that getup...
...Japanese commander promptly ordered their withdrawal. Same night a representative of the victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...