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...Vichy, after the dismissal fortnight ago of Vice Premier Laval, went Germany's Ambassador to France Otto Abetz. Young Otto Abetz had been charged by Adolf Hitler with removing from the Vichy Government any threats to the continued "collaboration" of France and Germany. In Vichy he saw Marshal Pétain, then hurried to nearby Châteldon to hear Laval's story of his break with Pétain. At Abetz' insistence, Chief of State Pétain received Citizen Laval and listened to his justification of the conduct, still unrevealed, which led to his dismissal...
Whether Pierre Etienne Flandin was acceptable to Adolf Hitler remained for the latter's Agent-Ambassador Otto Abetz to say. Accompanied by a formidable Nazi delegation, Abetz hurried to Vichy while spokesmen in Berlin recalled that Germany and France were "still at war," and grimly intimated that upon his report would depend whether "the present state of affairs shall continue...
...OTTO EISENSCHIML Chicago...
Before the year was out, Remains went to Berlin to sell Franco-German cultural unity, was in the thick of the Saar plebiscite controversy as French liaison man for such characters as Otto Abetz (now Ambassador to Unoccupied France) and Abetz mentor, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Neither was very important then, but both were comers. Remains was impressed by Ribbentrop's "18th-Century mind," thought he was the kind of cynic who would leaven the extremism of the Nazis. He was more impressed by young Otto Abetz, who had a French wife and spoke feelingly of the cultural bonds between...
...dining room of a West Side bungalow in Chicago one day last week, nine chattering girls sat down to breakfast with a fleshy, fatherly, balding man whose eyes twinkled with self-satisfaction. The cottage was their office, the man their boss. For them President Otto E. Eisenschiml of Scientific Oil Compounding Co. (processors and distributors of vegetable oils) had just bought a tank car of linseed oil-theirs to resell when they like. He gets back his purchase price and stands the losses, if any. They get the profits...