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Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...
...Bewegung (The German Faith Movement). Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting ''Back to Wotan!" Others cautiously preparing to argue for "mild revision of the Bible to make it less Jewish." Keynoters were Nazi Editor Fritz Gericke and Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 65-year-old Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff, was present he went unnoticed. The big issue promptly became Paragraph 24 of the Nazi Constitution which explicitly makes Christianity the religion of Brownshirts. This was disposed of amid roars...
Among others were: Chancellor Marx (Centre), Foreign Minister Stresemann (German Peoples' Party), ex-Chancellors Scheidemann and Wirth (Social Democratic), General Erich von Ludendorff (Popular Party), Count zu Reventlow (Popular Party), Count von Bernstorff, ex-German Ambassador to the U. S. (Democratic), Fräulein Ruth Fischer (Communist...
Whatever the real significance of the mooted Bolshevik-Royalist party, it cannot be denied that when a paper like Die Rote Fahne offers and Count Reventlow accepts the hospitality of its columns, there is an a priori case for something rotten in the German state...
Count von Reventlow, naval officer and noted exponent of ruthless submarine attacks during the War, recalled with regret the failure of German and Bolshevik arms to join forces against Poland in 1920. He complained of "the ruthless opposition of the Communists against the Nationalists," a fact which precluded the possibility of an alliance. He discussed in an approving vein a plan that Nationalist and Communists should march together "for a part of their way." After the defeat of the "common opponent" they?the Communists and the Nationalists?will be able to settle their differences...