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...Proofreader Jerry Zalph, 45. ¶ Proofreader Otto Albertson...
Died. Sir James Hamet Dunn, 81, Canadian financier; of a heart ailment; in St. Andrews, N.B. As a young lawyer, Dunn edged his way into corporate financing, was soon selling up to $10 million worth of securities a day and pocketing daily commissions up to $60,000. U.S. Banker Otto Kahn called him "a greater financier than all of us." Britain awarded him a baronetcy (one of the few hereditary titles ever given a Canadian) for his World War I services in halting shipments of neutral nickel to Germany. In 1932, by investing a mere...
Back in Berlin after a month's tour of the Communist Far East, East Germany's puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl said out loud what Red China's bosses have been soft-pedaling for the past eight months. His meaning was clear, though he phrased his words in the classic upside-down language of Communism: "The Chinese people unanimously support the peace policy of their government. They are ready to stand together to fight for the return of Formosa to the motherland...
...WITH THREE FACES (243 pp.) - Hans-Otto Meissner-Rlnehart ($3.50). Certain families have the ruling habit-the Adamses and Roosevelts in the U.S., Cecils, Churchills and Stanleys in Britain. The Sorge family is one of the first in history with a hereditary link to international Communism...
...Giant. Sorge, under cover of being a Nazi journalist in Japan, operated a fabulously successful spy ring during more than seven critical years until his detection in 1941. With the accent of wonder which belongs to those who have been involved in a frightful event without understanding it, Hans-Otto Meissner, a German embassy attache in Tokyo until he was called to war duty, details Sorge's coups for Communism. Sorge and his accomplices told the Russians: ¶That Japan had rejected a German proposal for an alliance against the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, which edged Russia into...