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Deported Fritz Kuhn, 52, prewar U.S. Bundesführer, had lost some weight, but still talked as big as ever. Appealing a ten-year rap as a major Nazi offender before a court in Munich, he bellowed that the Bund had been strictly "an American patriotic organization," had used the swastika only because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George...
...justice in the past dealt Kuhn a $10 traffic fine in Edgewater, N.J., a $5 fine for drunkenness & public profanity in Webster, Mass., a 2½-to-5-year sentence in Dannemora after he was caught with his hand in the Bund till...
Along the swarming Pearl River Bund flashed U.S.-patterned advertisements using scantily clad, busty female forms to sell everything from cosmetics to waterproof wristwatches. Farther uptown, smartly dressed taxi dancers helped tired Chinese and foreign businessmen while away their evenings at California-style restaurants and cabarets to the strains of Rum Boogie and Springtime in the Rockies...
Across the Bund, down pedicab-jammed Tai Ping Road, Canton's shops and sidewalk stands bulged with everything from leather goods to solid gold rings and brooches. The jewelry, generally regarded as the only remaining safe investment in an inflation area that rivals panicky Shanghai, was selling briskly...
...boomtown fever was not confined to the Bund and midtown shopping area. At White Cloud airport a C.N.A.C. pilot exclaimed: "My God, there are five new buildings here since my trip last week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies...