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...Last week the 80-year-old weekly Watertown (Wis.) Weltbitrger ceased publication. Famed German-language publication, it had been edited by Liberal Carl Schurz at one time and by Ralph Blumenfeld, now board chairman of the London Daily Express. Since 1930. the Weltburger had been published by National Weeklies, Inc. in Winona, Minn...
...certain kind of news is called "American." Admittedly the foremost "American" editor in London is Mr. Ralph D. ("Blum") Blumenfeld of the London Daily Express. Operated by one Dave Blumenfeld, son of Ralph, is the London Feature Service. Last week this enterprising bureau cabled to the U. S. a story "not to be reproduced in the British Isles." Apparently Canadians were considered sufficiently "American" to enjoy what followed...
...Ralph D. Blumenfeld is 64 years old. He was born in the U.S., worked on Chicago and New York newspapers. Then he went to England and became editor of the London Daily Express-owned by the most potent of Canadian-born peers, Lord Beaverbrook. Editor Blumenfeld toured the U.S., this autumn, as guest of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Last week, back in London, he told of the one ineffaceable memory of his tour-Prohibition, "the greatest, most tragic joke any nation played upon itself in the history of civilization...
...Editor Blumenfeld elaborated: "This deadly [U.S.] 'gin' has ruined more homes, wrecked more young lives and showered more misery on a great and generously minded country than years of straightforward drunkenness on pure spirits ever witnessed during the generations before prohibition bit itself into the nation's vitals...
...Hello New York," he said, "this is Churchill. You have a message for Blumenfeld? Will put him on to speak for himself...