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...more than a year, a tight little group of U.S. consular aides had lived and worked in the tower-topped Glen Line Building on Shanghai's teeming Bund. One day last month, U.S. Consul General Walter P. McConaughy hauled down a tattered flag, locked the doors of his offices and left. For the first time in over 100 years, no U.S. flag flew over a diplomatic post on the Chinese mainland...
...special feature of the fashionable gathering will be the presentation of the First Annual Cummerbund Cup, to the "most nattily attired outfielder." Presenting the beautiful piece will be Cummer von Bund, head of the German-American Cummer Bund. A check with Mr. Bund's office late last night revealed that he had not yet fixed upon his very correct costume for the occasion, but it was indicated that he will be "so lovely you could...
...German I. G. Farben ... It was alleged that the Nazis were-and are-his clients . . . that he had looked with favor upon the rape of Czechoslovakia and that he favored the aggressive wars of the Axis. Attempt was made to identify him with the German-American Bund...
...Pacific Coast Longshoremen, who is under Federal indictment for using improper methods in obtaining citizenship in 1945. At that time the government tried to deport Bridges, but the Supreme Court found that the District Attorney did not prove his accusation--Bridges was not a Communist. Two former German Bund leaders, Fritz Kuhn, and August Klaprott, and one of Al Capone's old assistants, Anthony Volpe, may also have their cases reviewed this session. Though the Court crossed the case of Gerhardt Eisler off its agenda in June, it must also do something about the "Number One U. S. Communist...
...only English-language newspaper left in Shanghai, of the four flourishing when the Communists took over, is the British-owned, 99-year-old North China Daily News. Last week the Communists banned distribution of news by foreign news agencies, left "the Old Lady of the Bund" with little news to print...