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Since 1914 there has been not a single German consulate in eastern France. Last week Premier Camille Chautemps softened up, permitted Chancellor Adolf Hitler to establish one at Epinal, 50 miles southwest of Strasbourg near Alsace-Lorraine. Indignant Epinal residents complained: "It will be nothing but a nest of spies...
...effect of the Scopes trial was to instill a burning determination to combat ignorance and bigotry in a wispy, grey, mild-mannered man named Ludwig Erwin Katterfeld. Born 56 years ago in Strasbourg, which was then German, Ludwig Katterfeld arrived in the U. S., worked on a Nebraska farm, graduated from a college in Kansas where he majored in sociology. He got interested in labor problems, joined the Socialist party, rose to a position of some influence, acted as a circulation executive for several left-wing publications. Meanwhile he made a living as a salesman. Now his crusade for scientific...
...Revolution of 1848, his biography deals principally with intricate diplomatic maneuvers, grows more tedious as it advances. The best pages in Author du Coudray's book consequently cover Metternich's relations with Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna. Born in Coblentz in 1773, Metternich was educated at Strasbourg a short time after Napoleon. He possessed a practical, precise mind that made him disinterested in diplomacy, interested in science. Leaving his diplomatic apprenticeship in Dresden and Berlin, he was sent to Paris at the age of 33, soon established himself despite the fact that he represented a defeated country...
...Monaco who gave him his first backing. Colonel de Basil's purse was almost empty when he first arrived in the U. S. But in the last year he has been able to buy three Fierce-Arrow automobiles, one that was smashed near New Orleans, another in Strasbourg, France, a third which is still running...
...undistinguished journalist who has done articles critical of Nazidom for English papers. In London a certain Dr. Hans Wesemann, believed by Swiss last week to head an international kidnap & murder ring operating for the German Government, arranged for Jacob to go from his home in Strasbourg to Basle, Switzerland on promise of pay for further free-lance work. On the night of March 9, Wesemann, posing as an anti-Nazi, and Jacob left the Basle Restaurant Zum Schiefen Eck in a Swiss motor car No. ZH9512...