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...book was written by one Giselher Wirsing, editor of Munich's Muenchner Neueste Nachrichten. It was publicized as "a literary bombshell of Non-Intervention" by Prescott Dennett, Washington's one-man pro-Nazi Columbia Press Service. Its preface was by lynx-eyed George Sylvester Viereck, who gets $1,000 a month as "adviser and literary stylist" for the German Library of Information (official propaganda agents) and as representative for the Neueste Nachrichten. Questioned, Stylist Viereck first said, "I am in an uncommunicative mood," later admitted that he arranged for the book's publication...
...Lend-Lease Act was our Munich. Is the convoy plan to be our Poland...
...column here. That is the American column." He overshadowed Harold Ickes, bubbled and sizzled like a drop of water in a hot frying pan, and left Manhattan with the astonished realization that it had produced at a patriotic rally an audience almost as big as the population of Munich...
Following his graduation in '28, Sully spent a year in Munich as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow; since then he has been teaching German at Harvard. In his home at 18 Mt. Auburn Street, he reads the Old Testament in the original, saves pennies in brass pig toward his record collection, and murders Beethoven and Haydn on the piano which stands in his bedroom beside a bust of Groucho Marx...
Fortnight before, Hitler's "shadow"-the young World War I infantryman and Air Force pilot who had got caught in the 1923 Munich beer-hall Putsch and had gone to jail with Hitler and had helped him write Mein Kampf in prison-had traveled to Augsburg and decorated Willy Messerschmitt at the Messerschmitt aircraft factory for services to the Fatherland. Three days later Hess had sat on the dais of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, arms folded and beetle-brows lowered, while his frenzied colleague of 21 hard years of struggle had crowed over the victory...