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Died. Baron Constantin von Neurath, 83, onetime (1932-38) German Foreign Minister, who became "Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, was replaced by Reinhard ("The Hangman") Heydrich (1941) after a wave of unrest; of a heart ailment; at Enzweihingen, Germany...
...Australia's House of Representatives (in 1940, as Minister for both Commerce and the Navy, he refused to retract an insult made on the floor of the House, became the only Minister in the Commonwealth to be voted out of a Parliament for disciplinary reasons); of a lung ailment; in Sydney...
...that Ulbricht counts on the fact that Dahlem, who suffers from a heart ailment, appears to have aged considerably. But it remains a fact that Dahlem would be a natural choice for party leadership should the Russians try to reorganize East German Communism without unpopular Walter Ulbricht...
Last week, in the fullness of years, fate overtook Fleet Admiral Ernie King. At the Portsmouth, N.H. naval hospital, where he had been spending the summer, Sundowner King, aged 77, died of a heart ailment. After funeral services at Washington's National Cathedral, with Old Comrades General Marshall, Admirals William D. Leahy and Chester Nimitz among the honorary pallbearers, Staunch Mariner King, who never saw the sea until he was 18 but made its mastery his life, was buried at Annapolis...
Died. Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, U.S.N., 77, tall, frosty, wartime (1942-45) Chief of Naval Operations, 1941 commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; of a heart ailment; in Kittery, Me. Before the dust had cleared from the Pearl Harbor debris, President Roosevelt summoned bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second ocean-where he had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941-to lay down a massive plan of defense and counterattack in the blazing Pacific. ("When they get into trouble," barked King, "they always send for the sons of bitches...