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...jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest. In 1941 she landed in the U.S. by clipper from Lisbon, eventually turned up in Detroit. Ever since, says FBI, she has been the transmission point for an energetic little spy ring which was trying to get U.S. war-production figures to the Nazis...
Bits to Big-Time. Paul Lukas (real name Lucacs Pal) was born in 1895 on a train pulling into the Budapest station. His father was a Hungarian advertising man. By the end of World War I Lukas was a Hungarian aviator. Then for two years he was a bit player and chorus man. Spotted by the Comedy Theater in Budapest, Lukas made his big-time Budapest debut as Liliom...
...died when they flickered in 1933. Others saw the lights blow out again. Europe's darkness this time spread to Africa, Asia, Australia, America; in the universal war, even neutrals had to accept the night. Among the world's blacked-out cities: London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Bern, Budapest, Helsinki, Honolulu. Dimmed-out cities: Moscow, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Bombay...
...Italian situation in its political warfare. Moscow radio beamed an appeal of the Free German committee to the German people to overthrow Hitler. "Mussolini is the first to go, but he will not be the last ally of Hitler's to desert the sinking ship. In Budapest . . . the same will soon happen. Mannerheim and Antonescu also...
Hungarian Deals. Some reports had Hungary defying the Germans but not quite breaking with them. The Germans are aware that Hungary is feeling out the possibilities of deals with the U.S. and Britain. Budapest papers played up Premier Nicholas Kallay's recent trip to Rome, where he conferred with Mussolini and was received at the Vatican. The same papers virtually ignored Regent Nicholas Horthy's recent conference with Hitler. Kallay further angered the Germans by dealing with the long-dormant but now reviving Social Democrats, and a new Socialist Peasant party. But paid pro-Germans are still strong...