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...pride of Chicago's Germans is nourished not only by the statues of Goethe, Schiller and von Humboldt that gleam in the city parks but by their living countrymen prominent in the city's affairs. Chicago last week honored one of these, blue-eyed, baldish Carl Bismarck Roden, for 50 years an employe of the great Chicago Public Library and for 18 years its Chief Librarian...
Upon the unhappy Earl of Plymouth jumped both Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German Charge d'Affaires, and Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, a fierce and scathing fighter in debate. With concentrated sarcasm Signer Grandi asked Comrade Cahan why, if Russia was so strong for non-intervention in Spain, she did not protest the British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan...
Chamberlain had been "misunderstood"; Comrade Cahan ceased fulminating; Moscow appeared willing that its notes should suffer the delay of being sent to Rome, Berlin and Lisbon to be answered at leisure; Ambassador Grandi and Prince von Bismarck agreed on second thought to transmit the notes to Rome and Berlin; Lord Plymouth undertook to inform the Portuguese Government; and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had left Monte Carlo in a hurry, ate a placid lunch in Paris with socialist French Premier Leon Blum. The Frenchman calmed his British guest greatly by saying that Paris would not join Moscow in precipitant intervention...
...months before relations be tween the U. S. and Germany were broken. Up to that time Bernstorff's career was unexciting. Born of an old diplomatic family in 1862, Bernstorff had been an in different student, apparently without goading ambitions, when a feud between his family and the Bismarcks seemingly put an end to any diplomatic aspirations he might have held. Bernstorff's older brother had been recalled from Washington be cause he "showed more interest in the Y. M. C. A. than in politics." Johann Bernstorff spent eight years in the army before he got into...
Chief interest in this revival of twelve old Victor recordings on which the late great Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke plays trumpet with such bands as Whiteman's and Goldkette's is that Victor has. wherever possible, made the records from masters not originally used. Like most great jazz musicians, "Bix'' seldom played the same chorus the same way twice...