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Herr Funk's grim warning was only confirmation of the view taken by the New York Times's No. i foreign correspondent, Otto D. Tolischus, in his book They Wanted War (TIME, July 29). Contemplating a U. S. left, if Britain is beaten, to face a new Nazi economy of "blood over gold," he observed: "Such an upheaval . . . would put America's entire foreign trade . . . under the control of Germany and her allies. . . . America would find the competition of a consolidated Europe, behind whose salesmen stood the military might of Germany...
...civilization itself." Soon deluged with telephone calls was KHJ, most of them from citizens full of praise for Squelcher Weiss. Then Berlin was heard from. D. N. B., official German newsagency, had denounced Weiss's shut down as "unprecedented and brazen." Hit ler's Press Chief Dr. Otto Dietrich coldly notified MBS that until the episode was satisfactorily explained the Reich would permit no broadcasts from Germany and German-controlled areas over the whole Mutual network with which the Don Lee chain is affiliated. Although MBS frantically pointed out to Berlin that all of its network (140 stations...
...Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol, of spectacled, bluff Admiral James Otto Richardson, 1940's CINCUS, whose fleet lies in the Pacific while the Japanese Navy waits-and waits...
While the Americas prepared to discuss plans for a western hegemony, the shadow of an uninvited guest fell ominously across the conference city. Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister to Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, delivered a note to the five latter Central American Republics (Panama was excluded), warning them that the conference would move Western Hemisphere nations away from neutrality, that the Nazis would retaliate (by unannounced means) should the delegates act against Germany. And Secretary of State Cordell Hull, head of the U. S. delegation to Havana, promptly barked back...
Died. Richard H. Otto, 59, executive of Brooks Brothers clothing store; of the effects of an operation; in Manhattan. Foremost expert in tying fashionable ascot ties, Cravateer Otto knotted wedding neckpieces for Astors, Rockefellers, Roosevelts, Wanamakers, Morgans; in a single June once tied 105 ascots...