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...attacks on the U.S. were very interesting. Although as an American I was greatly nattered that another nation should dominate its parliamentary podium with debates on our Constitution, a far more intrinsic item kept stealing in between the lines: the memory of a man with an umbrella returning from Munich...
...sets. On the final production, the four Cabinet members (whom Ike addressed variously as "Herb," "George," "Mr. Benson" and "Miz Hobby") commented conversationally on their hopes for congressional action. The President spoke briefly and reassuringly on the U.S. course in world affairs: "There is going to be no new Munich, and ... there is going to be no risk of a general...
...Munich, the crimes of Use Koch, "Bitch of Buchenwald," were still catching up with her. Already serving a life sentence for concentration-camp atrocities, she was classified a major Nazi offender by a German de-Nazification court. Her sentence: two years in a work camp and confiscation of all her property...
...Brescia for Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile race). Along went a famed prewar Mercedes figure, vat-sized Alfred Neubauer, 62, pit boss in the 1930s. Neubauer, who wears two stop watches about his neck and likes to keep a cooling case of Munich beer close by, had lost none of his cunning. Under his split-second training, crews changed tires and refueled the Mercedes in 22 seconds. After placing second in the Mille Miglia, the Daimler-Benz champions grabbed top honors at Bern's Grand Prix, at France's Le Mans, the most grueling...
Died. Otto Lebrecht Meissner, 73 ("Sphinx of the Wilhelmstrasse"), enigmatic Man Friday to three successive heads of the German state after World War I; in Munich. Meissner got an Iron Cross in World War I, in 1923 became Socialist President Ebert's trusted State Secretary, was kept as confidant by Hindenburg, and a behind-the-scenes negotiator between Hindenburg and the up & coming Nazis. He turned up after Hitler's 1933 rise to power as a gaudily uniformed Minister of State for the new Führer. Tried and acquitted as a war criminal after World...