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...bewildering. Was not Mexico at war with Germany? And had not Germany been charged with the brutal sinking of the Athenia, back in 1939's fateful September? And had not Owner Axel Wenner-Gren providentially happened along in the Southern Cross and picked up 399 of the Athenia's survivors...
What a Book! People said the most dreadful, the most ridiculous things about Axel Wenner-Gren. They said he was "the most mysterious man in the Western Hemisphere." They said he was "one of the most fantastic figures in the world." They said he was "the richest man on the face of the earth." "What a book he'll make some day," a newspaperman sighed and someone else added: "Yes, preferably by Aldous Huxley...
...people ever saw in Axel Wenner-Gren what he claims to see in himself. One of the kinder things people have said was that he was an able but harmless fellow afflicted by delusions of grandeur. Others, with more calumny, have said that he was the Axis super-agent for the Western Hemisphere, told off to: 1) soften up Latin America for the Axis; 2) harden it up against North America...
Dove in Hornets' Nest. Axel Wenner-Gren was not used to such treatment. He was used to being treated as a king-the industrial king he is-not as a criminal. And he was a king who had won his crown. Born to a Swedish export dealer 61 years ago, Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt...
Cuzco's Doctor. Last year Axel Wenner-Gren sailed the Southern Cross to Peru, where he was received as a king. He financed an archeological expedition, gave Peru a million-acre public park, named for the donor, who felt warmly in his heart that Peru would not soon forget the name of Wenner-Gren. He was proud as a peacock when the University of Cuzco gave him an honorary doctorate, and the soft-footed servants who now minister to him and his wife in Mexico have been trained to call him "Doctor...