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...Axis, Gaston Henry-Haye has taken the place once occupied by Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky among the diplomatic outcasts of Washington. Oumansky, though diplomatically shunned for two years, was nevertheless personally popular, bore up well. Henry-Haye, natu rally affable, is desolately lonely-next to Germany's handsome Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, is probably the loneliest man in boom-packed Washington...
...talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said the Captain as he peeled $100 bills off a fat bankroll, to pay baggage men: "Well have to win the war to pay for this trip." In Washington, Chargé d'Affaires Dr. Hans Thomsen scraped the Embassy bare of cash to pay the Captain's airline bill...
...Buenos Aires, with Acting President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting...
...suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, handsome Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires, sadly puffed a cigar, remarked to reporters: "It is not the first time that this has happened and things just take their course." Dr. Thomsen had not yet been invited to leave Washington; the final break in U.S.-Nazi diplomatic relations had not yet been made. But they were badly cracked...
...hrer Fritz Kuhn, now convict 26558, was refused a parole at Dannemora, where he is serving two and one-half to five years for stealing Bund funds. Despite good behavior, the board decided he was "a hazard, to the public peace." Red-haired Annelise Thomsen, wife of the Nazi Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, denied she would refuse to return to Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said she: "I may have jokingly said I wanted another season of foxhunting here in America"; but she denied ever remarking that the Nazis came from, and would return...