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When Adolf Hitler took over Austria, his Ambassador in Washington, Hans Dieckhoff, quietly took over the Austrian Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue without protest from popular Austrian Minister Edgar Prochnik. Last week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence of Herr Dieckhoff is Adolf Hitler's No. i man in the U. S.), received orders to take over the building standing right next door to the late Austrian Legation-the Legation of Czecho-Slovakia. He ordered two secretaries to go over and take possession. After they left he rang...
Died. Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, 55, U. S. chargé d'affaires in Germany since Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson's recall last November; of thrombosis; in Berlin...
...Diplomatic Reception, President & Mrs. Roosevelt started their annual round of state parties in the White House. Red-haired young Mrs. Ickes in vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff had been called home; moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, dean of the diplomatic corps, was vacationing in Britain, but Lady Lindsay attended, holding a little...
Inferentially, U. S. Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Alexander Kirk, with whom Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh stayed in Moscow and who handled the arrangements, was suspected. Pravda charged that on the Lindberghs' return to England the Colonel told "guests of Lady Astor" that "Germany possesses such a strong air force it is capable of defeating the combined air fleets of England, France, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia...
Meanwhile from Paris came the first detailed account of Dr. Schuschnigg's six-month confinement. According to Dr. Martin Fuchs, former Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in Paris and friend of the jailed Chancellor, Dr. Schuschnigg is now held in a tiny bedroom under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, a stuffy, ten-foot-square cell containing only a bed, table, chair and a burly Storm Trooper who never leaves the room. "He has altered in appearance terribly. He is emaciated. His eyes are haggard. They will not let him have a razor...