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...midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house. The news he brings gets him the friendship of Insurance Broker John Julius Angerstein (Sir Guy Standing), a foothold in the ring of marine underwriters...
Rallying under Angerstein, the older brokers at Lloyd's propose to ask the British admiralty for naval convoys for merchant ships. Sure that this plan, which requires weakening Nelson's fighting fleet, means ultimate defeat for England, Blake holds out against it. When a letter from the admiral reminds him of their boyhood promise, Blake takes the desperate chance of using his semaphore to flash news of a naval victory which has not happened. The ruse delays the admiralty's plan until Nelson, with his full fleet at his command, has won gloriously and died at Trafalgar...
Terrible though his crimes are, Coachman Kuerten ranks third on the list of Germany's post-War "mass murderers." His record was exceeded by "Harrman of Hanover" and "Angerstein of North Germany"?probably the most ferocious, wholesale destroyers of life (except in Wartime) since the Middle Ages. Oddly enough last week, the heirs of Killer Angerstein collected on his life insurance. After prolonged litigation the court held that beheading (the official German mode of execution) constitutes "death" within the meaning of an ordinary insurance policy...
Opponents of the famed criminological thesis which says "It is insane to commit murder, therefore every murderer is insane, therefore no murderer should be punished," observed last week that in Germany this syllogism seems to have badly broken down. Triumphantly they pointed out that Coachman Kuerten, Harrman and Angerstein all lived orderly lives apart from their crimes, showed no other symptoms of insanity, seemed to be actuated as killers by what one detective last week called "sane malice...
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