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Leslie Charteris, bemonocled creator of Simon Templar, "The Saint." ∙∙ In Minneapolis 37-year-old Theodor Broch, ex-Mayor of Narvik, applied for U.S. citizenship. Under Nazi sentence of death he escaped from Norway in June 1940. ∙∙Home to the U.S. came Countess Jeanne von Bernstorff, 73-year-old widow of Germany's Ambassador to the U.S. in World War I. A U.S. citizen since 1939, when she made a quick trip to America to regain her citizenship after 52 years, she answered a reporter who asked whether she spoke English: "You go to hell...
Died. Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, 76, exiled German diplomat, pre-World War I German Ambassador to U. S.; of heart disease; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...Geneva the wife of Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Wartime German Ambassador to the U. S., revealed that he was so broken up by the death last march of Colonel E. M. House, one-time confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson, that he has been ill ever since...
Although he gives only limited sketches of individuals, Bernstorff mentions in passing that the Archduchess Luisa was "more of a case for Sigmund Freud than for the historian," that Prince Max could only sleep with the assistance of powerful narcotics. His best portrait is of his friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three...
Holding that the "War would be decided in Washington," Bernstorff vainly tried to. influence his government to concede to U. S. public opinion against unrestricted submarine warfare. After the battle of the Marne he held that Germany could not win a military victory by force of arms, consequently wanted U. S. mediation for peace. Blocked by German internal politics, by the pressure of military authorities who believed in the possibility of victory until 1918, by von Tirpitz, who spread exaggerated reports of the effectiveness of submarine warfare, Bernstorff was compelled to improvise in delaying U. S. entry into...