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...weak attitude of the Great Powers from 1895 on, and their failure to understand the true German designs, convinced the Berlin leaders that in the near future they could satisfy their wildest ambitions. Consequently the Pan-German scheme was extended to cover the whole world." He quotes Pan-Germanist Otto Richard Tannenberg (Greater Germany, the Work of the Twentieth Century) to prove that as early as 1911 Germany planned by 1950 to expand out of Europe and control the strategic points of the world, on land and sea, in Africa, Asia and the Americas, including all of South America south...
...Archduke Otto of Austria received guests in Hollywood, seated on a golden throne at last-a prop one borrowed from the M.G.M. warehouse. Ex-Bundführer Fritz Kuhn, now convict 26558, was refused a parole at Dannemora, where he is serving two and one-half to five years for stealing Bund funds. Despite good behavior, the board decided he was "a hazard, to the public peace." Red-haired Annelise Thomsen, wife of the Nazi Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, denied she would refuse to return to Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said...
...duty with the Naval Reserve, joined Brothers James, Franklin Jr. and Elliott, in uniform. >> The fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Jaipur, 29, joined the British forces in Egypt as a captain. At home he has a private army of his own, rides in a solid gold-and-silver coach. >> Mrs. Otto H. Kahn made herself useful in Cairo's British canteens. >> Rex Beach (The Spoilers, The Ne'er-do-Well), 63, registered for civilian defense in Florida, said he wanted to fight fires. >> Torchsinger Libby Holman's young second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, lost his draft appeal...
...Archduke Otto of Austria was sued for an accounting of Habsburg family funds by his hard-up fifth cousin, Archduke Leopold. >> "Death Valley" Scotty was ordered to turn over 22½% of his mining claims to his old friend and banker, Julian Gerard; but the judge doubted any gold would be found, and did not award Gerard any interest in his protégé's three-million-dollar desert castle. >> Historian Harry Elmer Barnes was dropped as a lecturer by Eastern Washington College of Education (Cheney, Wash.) because "during his early years Dr. Barnes was associated with certain...
...English circus, and she danced and sang her musicomedy way into the arms of an ex-doughboy baritone and the hearts of Manhattan theatergoers. Of no small help to her was the catchy score by Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert's successor and equal, and the lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. One of their tunes moved the great Critic Percy Hammond to observe: "One song entitled Who? was attractive enough to indicate that ere the snow falls it will be a pest...