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...Adolf Hitler entertained at Berchtesgaden the then President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. That gentleman, the swank-loving, multimillionaire Aga Khan, was impressed. After Munich he wrote to the London Times predicting there would be no war. When the Blitzkrieg struck Flanders the Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum (rated No. 5 among the ten best-dressed women in the world) fled from a French spa, not to Britain but to Switzerland. In Geneva last week the Aga Khan was no longer able to get money transferred from his bank accounts in London, Bombay and Cairo...
Part of the Aga Khan's racing stable has already been dispersed. (In December he sold four horses for fancy prices to Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer and the beasts were shipped to the U. S. on a Cunarder with 125 German refugees.) Last week a U. S. syndicate (including James Cox Brady, Walter P. Chrysler Jr., Sylvester W. Lebrot and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt) bought his great horse Bahrain, which won the Derby in 1935, for a reported price of $160,000. So last week the vexed and impoverished Aga Khan took up a less expensive sport-mountain climbing. Said...
...Jerusalem meanwhile, the Aga Khan's energetic son Aly Khan broadcast an appeal to all Mohammedans: "Help Britain with all your energy. Religious freedom has received what appears to be a death sentence in those countries which have fallen under totalitarian regimes, whereas it exists untrammeled in all Mohammedan countries where there is British influence...
...Woodward horses won their owner-breeder $229,000 ($137,500 on U. S. tracks and $91,500 abroad), world's-record winnings that year, outstripping the winnings of the fabulous stables of Lord Astor, the Earl of Derby and the Aga Khan (in that order). And in the following year, Woodward-owned horses took first place in four of the nine English stakes in which they started and earned more money ($104,365) than any U. S. stable had ever won in England in one year. Last week on the eve of the opening of Saratoga, the Belair Stud, with...
When portly President the Aga Khan of the Assembly of the League of Nations wound up its session by a recess last week and statesmen started home, Geneva correspondents agreed that "only one of the 52 principal delegates left Geneva better known and better appreciated than when he arrived, Vilhelms Munters...