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...Davis Cuppers have already been killed in action: England's Ronald Shayes, Belgium's Andre Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist (suffering from jungle diseases that may finish their big-time tennis careers), Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska (unreported since the Nazi invasion of Poland) and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, whose capture in Tunisia was reported, then denied...
Munich's Gauleiter, Herr Giesler, put his spies to work and arrested three "ringleaders," Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst. They were described as typische Einzelganger (typical individual cranks), tried before a Nazi People's Court, found guilty of spreading defeatism and "encouraging sabotage in our armaments by means of leaflets...
...that the outside world knew on Feb. 22 was that Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had been beheaded. Since then other Munich citizens have laid their heads on the block before a white-gloved axman: Kurt Huber, a professor of psychology for 17 years; a lad who exchanged a leg at Stalingrad for the Iron Cross, First Class; at least nine other students. By last week it was apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain...
This year, after a 20-year separation, Sir Thomas divorced his first wife, the former Utica Welles (New York-born descendant of Connecticut's fourth Governor Thomas Welles). They have two sons, Adrian, 38, and Thomas, 33, both at present with the British Armed Forces. Sir Thomas has five elderly sisters, whom he describes as "very agreeable creatures," all living in England and married to "husbands who all do exactly what they want them to do-I don't know whether it's a family attribute, or just luck...
...week after Queen Wilhelmina went on record for a free Netherlands Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people (TIME, Dec. 14), Adolf Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Anton Adrian Mussert "Leader of The Netherlands people...