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Describing himself as the victim of Nazi political persecution, Ernst (Putzi) Hanfstaengl '09, who once served as Hitler's foreign press agent, filed claims for compensation amounting to $16,150 in Munich yesterday...
...hadn't been for the chickcharneys, there might never have been a war at all and peace in our time might actually have been achieved at Munich. But the chickcharneys, who live on trees in the Bahamas' Andros Island, are fierce little men for all their 18 inches of height (see cut). They hate to be disturbed, and they're not likely to forget a man who chops down their favorite tree. Neville Chamberlain should have realized that, when he was a young man managing his father's sisal plantation in Andros...
...World-Telegram in a memorable headline: RUSSIANS RESTRAIN JOY OVER U.S. BROADCAST. Listeners who were interviewed said that they liked the music, found that the text did "not sound American." But the Voice of America (which has a long way to travel via an insufficient relay station in Munich) was completely inaudible on all but the very best Russian radio sets, which are owned by the very best Communists...
...tragically linked to whether these men can survive the next five years. Even students in American colleges will remember the lost generation in British and French leadership after the last war; the generation that might have filled the moral breach at the time of the Rhineland, or Auschluss, or Munich. Enlarge that picture to the entire cordon of east-European states and project it fifteen or twenty years into the future. If tuberculosis and the vitality consuming hunt for food are allowed to divert the best minds of east-Europe and China away from their training, these countries must...
Died. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, 78, frozen-faced Hitler henchman, chief of the Nazi "Colonial League" (agitators for return of Germany's pre-1914 colonies), Governor of Bavaria; briefly defender of Munich in World War II; in Munich...