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...Guatemala confiscated its German-owned railway, heard with satisfaction that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to Central America who tried to torpedo the Havana Conference in 1940 and who was expelled from headquarters in Guatemala, had been met when his ship docked in Brooklyn, escorted to a reunion with other German diplomats at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...
...Time to Come (by Howard Koch & John Huston; produced by Otto Preminger) leafs back to an instructive page of U.S. history. It tells the sorry tale of Woodrow Wilson's vision of a just peace and powerful League of Nations after World War I, of the conniving that crippled that vision at Versailles, and the opposition that destroyed it at home...
What Hermann Göing and Henri Pétain talked about on this, their first meeting; what the lesser men in their entourage-Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan, Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ambassador Otto Abetz-said to one another was not revealed as the meeting ended. There were many subjects to discuss, many tidbits of concessions that the Germans could offer, most notably the release of the 1,500,000 war prisoners and the restoration of Paris to Vichyfrance. The Germans wanted the Marshal to sign some sort...
Perhaps Japan's desire for two weeks more of Washington talk was merely to allow herself a fortnight's more preparation in Indo-China. On the other hand, New York Times Tokyo Correspondent Otto Tolischus last week reminded his readers that Japanese statesmen are not the feverish windbags that the West often pictures them, that "they are hard-headed realists who regard politics as 'the art of the possible.' . . . That is why Japan has often retreated in the face of overwhelming force, but has never lost...
...these were subordinate to the Liaison Staff of which Hess was chairman. Its members included Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Bohle, Otto Abetz, Ley. There was also that "laboratory for the science of conquest," The Institute of Geopolitics, whose 1,000-odd researchers supplied it with "a series of X-ray pictures of all the countries of the world...