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...really runs Switzerland is lady-killing Baron von Bibera, the German Minister." (No Minister is Freiherr Sigismund von Bibra-Lanius misspelled his name-but Botschaftsrat, i.e. Counsellor of Embassy; and Switzerland, independent since 1291, is still ruled by its seven-man Federal Council...
...state capable of keeping law & order, even totalitarian law & order, clearly hung by fewer threads than ever. Only five Rumanian divisions and a German force of less than a division remained to prevent anarchy. That was not all Antonescu had to worry about last week. German Ambassador Baron Manfred von Killinger was reported to have told him: "A situation might arise when Rumania will have to face the menace of a Russian invasion...
...Belgium last fortnight an 82-year-old gentleman who has been described as "the greatest modern Belgian artist . . . the first of the Expressionists ... a pre-Surrealist" was reported dead. He was Baron James Ensor, the son of an Englishman who sold sea shells and other souvenirs in a little shop at Ostend...
...years James Ensor, who never set foot out of Belgium, remained an English citizen. In 1930 Belgium's King Albert created Ensor a baron for his contribution to Belgium's esthetic reputation. Ensor became a Belgian. A street was named after him in his native Ostend. A tablet was placed on the wall of his house saying that he lived there. A statue of him was erected in Ostend's Casino Gardens. He unveiled it himself...
When Gottfried Sandstede fled, the Argentines were hopping mad. That was before Pearl Harbor, before their ships were sunk by Axis raiders, before they were formally accused by Sumner Welles of harboring Axis spies. The public at that time demanded the ousting of Nazi Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann. What might happen this time, if events followed a similar course, was anybody's guess. But it was clear that, as they already had in Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), the words of Sumner Welles were bearing overripe fruit in Argentina...