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Died. Captain Karl Boy-Ed, 58, one-time naval attach?? at the German Embassy in Washington; by a fall from his horse; at his estate Groenwoldhof, near Hamburg. In 1915 the U. S. forced his withdrawal when he became suspect of fomenting rebellion in Mexico and thus distracting the U. S. from the War. The then Kaiser rewarded him with the order of the Red Eagle. In 1921 he married Virginia Mackay Smith, daughter of the late Episcopal Bishop Smith Mackay of Pennsylvania...
...Poet Paul Claudel, Ambassador to the U. S., and Composer Darius Milhaud. Milhaud is also a onetime diplomat. Wartime Paris was a poor hunting-ground for young musicians. Many were forced to other means of livelihood and Milhaud, a prize Conservatory graduate, went to Brazil in 1917 as attach?? to the French legation there. In two years, however, he was back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even then Milhaud stood apart. Some professed to find a queer, shadowy beauty in his music. Others dismissed him as crude, trifling...
...patriots recalled that, as a naval attach?? under von Bernstorff, the German pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., Captain Boy-Ed caused such publications as the well poised Outlook to print the following denunciation of his activities: "Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen . . . have been the inspiration if not the agency of the Teutonic plots and conspiracies . . . of all the hideous crimes?arson, dynamiting, murder?committed in this country in a shameless and cowardly attempt to stop our supplies from going to the Allies...
...Louis. It came to Mr. George's notice that Colonel Dupont, French Military Attach??, who was in St. Louis on a tour, had said at a meeting of the Reserve Officers' Association...
...past 12 years has been of the highest order. He has eminently performed every task assigned him, particularly in modernizing and perfecting our drill regulations, successfully carrying out the field tests of the Provisional Regiment in 1912, as a distinguished member of the General Staff Corps, as military attach??© to Berlin, and later as instructor at our Service Schools including the staff college. While his separation from Harvard at this time is a distinct loss, he is ordered to Washington to undertake a task of greater responsibility and importance to the nation. Captain Bjornstad is a splendid man with...