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...Axis. That the screws might soon be applied was evident from the arrival in Madrid last week of Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the efficient Gestapo. Colonel Beigbeder resigned in a huff, his Foreign Ministry going to Serrano Suner. If the Germans are to run Spain, as the potential liaison man Serrano took a step up. If not, down...
Last year General Almazan asked Reporter Frank Gibler, who had spent some 20 years shuttling between Mexico and the U. S., to be Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from...
Before he was made a captain he was given the job of liaison officer between the one and only British brigade front (two miles) and the French Army, and terrestrial life began anew. He encountered an amazingly well-organized reconnaissance raid by picked, leather-jacketed German Stosstruppen. There was Christmas Eve dinner with the Black Watch (this war was just one more between the Scots and the Germans). Queen Elizabeth sent them all plum puddings. There was the visit of George VI, when the King held his salute for a battalion of chasseurs a pied until the last little proud...
Before the year was out, Remains went to Berlin to sell Franco-German cultural unity, was in the thick of the Saar plebiscite controversy as French liaison man for such characters as Otto Abetz (now Ambassador to Unoccupied France) and Abetz mentor, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Neither was very important then, but both were comers. Remains was impressed by Ribbentrop's "18th-Century mind," thought he was the kind of cynic who would leaven the extremism of the Nazis. He was more impressed by young Otto Abetz, who had a French wife and spoke feelingly of the cultural bonds between...
Some time ago General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the émigrés of 1940, went to see Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears, a tall, hearty, wealthy part-owner of shoe and cement factories and of a hotel chain, then (as in World War I) liaison officer between French and British High Commands. The British had just about concluded that General de Gaulle was a mediocrity, who by accident had achieved world prominence, not to be taken very seriously. But his story to General Spears was entirely plausible...