Word: bernstorff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...