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From a plane at Croydon stepped blond, monocled General Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Commissioner for Disarmament Questions, to talk with Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. General von Ribbentrop served as a lieutenant of Hussars during the War, speaks English and French perfectly, has spent four years in the U. S. and Canada and is married to the daughter of the German Champagne Maker Henkell. General von Ribbentrop had a three-power air limitation scheme to lay before the British Government. Nothing came...
Next day Mrs. Ronald Copeland from Stoke-on-Trent tried again, this time with Sir John Simon...
Strange indeed were the events that impelled Britain's Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon to rise in the House of Commons one day last week and say: "I feel sure that the whole House will join me m regretting the pain and indignation that have been caused throughout Belgium by this unfounded and irresponsible statement ... by Colonel Seton Hutchison to the effect that the late King of the Belgians was murdered." What the imaginative British lieutenant colonel, wounded and decorated four times during the War, had done was to put into words a rumor that had grown fast from...
...Simon & Schuster...
...UNPOSSESSED - Tess Slesinger - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Last week a new novelist burst, like a modern Pallas Athene, full-panoplied from the aching head of Uncle Sam. Critics who always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed...