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Last week in Zurich some 80 angels, mostly female, flocked to a heaven (in a "restaurant sans alcool"), to hear a German translation of Father Divine's latest "office talk." Reader Alfred Riesen, Father's governor in Switzerland, kept asking: "Aren't you glad?" Many angels wept for joy. "We thank thee, Father," they sang. "Oh, how wonderful is our Father Divine. . . . We belong to him with every atom of our body and soul...
Bursting with excitement, Herr Doktor Oberbürgermeister ("Lord Mayor") Günter Riesen of Cologne buttoned himself into his sausage-tight Nazi Storm Troop uniform and took his stance, shortly after noon, facing the Square. To Rhinelanders in whose bones is bred Die Wacht am Rhein with its ringing, tingling question: "The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! Who guards tonight our Stream Divine?" This was the most blissful moment in 17 years. Adam's apples gulped as on three bicycles the very first real GERMAN SOLDIERS, trim lads in grim steel helmets, swerved into the Square...
...Petersburg restaurant. George Kosloff, formerly a noted restaurant manager in both Kiev and Constantinople, is in charge, and it is rumored that among his assistants are several figures formerly prominent at the Court of St. Petersburg, who are now emigres in America. An orchestra under the direction of Teodsy Riesen entertains the clientele with typical Russian music, in a room with mural decorations done in the best manner of Nicholas Haritonov prominent Russian artist...