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...Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...
...many a Russian, Rachmaninoff had been fascinated by the weird poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Before the War he determined to work into a symphony Poe's tinkling sleigh bells, golden marriage bells, frightened alarm bells and bitter, iron-tongued dirge bells. As text he used Russian Poet Constantin Balmont's version of Poe's second most famous poem, completed the work...
...sending and as Madrid has been buying in the U. S. (see p. 13). Der Führer therefore was faced with having to decide his next big move in Spain-either intervention whole hog, or scuttle-and in Berlin foreign envoys were secretly tipped by Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath who emphasized, "I am speaking for the Chancellor." His exact words were not published but their gist was a declaration that Germany will not permit the establishment in Spain of anything resembling Soviet rule, and demands of Britain and France that they state whether they...
Alighting in Berlin, Ambassador von Ribbentrop went over the head of his nominal superior, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, and signed on behalf of the German Government the new Japanese-German treaty against the Moscow Comintern or organization for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935 et ante). The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kimitomo Mushaktji, signed on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and Nazi organs spoke...
...defense of Russia's new constitution, alleged to provide for the suffrage of 98.2 per cent of the population over 18 years of age, came to Harvard on Saturday less than an hour after the document had been adopted by the U.S.S.R., in the person of Constantin A. Oumansky, counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, speaking before Law School Students in Langdell Hall...