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Congress of Berlin? From Bucharest, Correspondent Walter Duranty cabled a story that Germany would soon summon all Europe except Russia and Turkey to a congress at Berlin which would revise national boundaries and set up Hitler's plan for a five-zone Europe guided by the Third Reich. Wrote...
...Folly." This week, nine years after Sam Hill died, Maryhill Castle (named after his wife Mary Hill) was opened as an art museum. Visitors who climbed the slopes to wander through its 40 rooms found a complete throne room decked with gold furniture from Marie's palace in Bucharest, Marie's crown, coronation robe, and clusters of her jewelry. Pictures had been lent by the Philadelphia and San Francisco Art Museums, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Sam Hill himself had left a collection of Rodin's original drawings and casts, an assortment of Northwest Indian...
...Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment Vag wondered what was the quickest way to the fame and fortune which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, free-lance writer; Vag., special adviser to the State Department; Vag's best selling memoirs. After a little while he noticed his pipe had gone...
...Bucharest the German Legation entertained Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu and other prominent Rumanians with a newsreel of the conquest of Norway, a sequel to the Nazis' film of the blasting of Poland plugged so diligently around the neutral circuit this winter. Two days earlier the Government had nipped what it said was a plot to seize all the country's airfields, had rounded up 60 foreign "tourists"-British as well as German-in the Ploesti oil-field region. King Carol held another secret confab with Yugoslavia's regent, Prince Paul...
...used Dr. Schacht as idea man, then replaced him with the scarcely more radical Dr. Walther Funk. To replace Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht as international salesman of German economy was more difficult, but Göring found his man in the persuasive Dr. Karl Clodius, who was in Bucharest trying to talk more oil and foodstuffs out of the Rumanians...