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...Minister to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; to be Minister to Denmark, succeeding the late Ralph Harman Booth. Robert P. Skinner, Minister to Greece, will succeed Mr. Coleman at Riga...
...Author, Alfred Doblin, middle-aged Berlin physician, has set Germany talking with his big book. Europe has overheard: translations are appearing in Holland, France, Italy, Denmark. England. Alexander platz, Berlin is being cinematized, dramatized, recorded for radio. Author Doblin has written other (untranslated) books; Author Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success), for one, says he has felt his influence...
...news that Parker ("Shorty") Cramer was the pilot was a sure clue to the flight's objective. Since immediately after the War. Pilot Cramer, onetime flying partner of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, had been arguing for a subarctic air route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell in 1928; the following year in the Chicago Tribune's Sikorsky amphibian 'Untin' Bowler, which was broken by floating ice and sunk in the Hudson Strait. "Shorty" Cramer continued to preach the feasibility of the route...
Within one week after they flew the Atlantic to Germany and Denmark in the Bellanca Liberty, the names of Pilot Holger Hoiriis and Passenger Otto Hillig could scarcely be found in U. S. newspapers. Their momentary flame of fame had been blown out by the propeller blast of the glorious Winnie Mae (see col. i). Here & there little two-paragraph despatches told of their jaunt from Copenhagen back into Germany, where Mr. Hillig became king for a day to the 300 inhabitants of his native Steinbrucken, whence he emigrated to the U. S. 40 years ago. There he shook hands...
Next day Hoiriis & Hillig flew back to Denmark for a reception at the pilot's birthplace, Braband. But the important city of Aarhus only three miles away, capital of the county, disdained to take official notice of their visit. The flight, said Burgomaster Jacob Jensen, was "haphazard luck." Had the flyers not named Copenhagen as their destination? And had they not floundered about over Spain and France before getting their bearings? So what if they had flown across the Atlantic Ocean safely? Many another has done the same. That is nothing nowadays...