Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Chargé d'Affaires in Buenos Aires last week formally refused the request of Argentina's Supreme Court that the Nazi spymaster and Naval Attaché, Captain Dietrich Niebuhr (TIME, Jan. 4), stand trial in Argentina for espionage. Thus Captain Niebuhr would escape the justice of Argentina's highest court, spend the duration of the war (if Argentina remained neutral), shielded by diplomatic immunity, within the bulging walls of the German Embassy. This week Argentina slapped back, requested that the spy be recalled to Germany...
...picture the coarseness, the turbulent vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
...slippery spy was John Jacob Napp, who kept a Buenos Aires waterfront saloon. Arrested, he sang on his boss as well as his subordinates (TIME, Dec. 28) and last week furnished Argentina's Supreme Court with evidence necessary to open legal proceedings against German Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr. At the request of the Court, the Foreign Office demanded that the German Embassy waive Niebuhr's diplomatic immunity and permit him to stand trial...
When they did, it was never long before someone slipped into a phone booth and called Captain Dietrich Niebuhr, naval attache of the German Embassy. "My cousin is on the Gneisenau" he would say, and the clever captain would know he was talking to an agent with valuable information. When the merchant ships put to sea they ran into Nazi U-boats with uncanny regularity. Many were sunk. Napp received 400 pesos a month and expense money, and he earned his pay many times over...
...catch included a deep-sea diver who had volunteered to attach time bombs to the keels of Allied ships in Buenos Aires harbor. His activities and those of other agents, including a Swiss and Paraguayan, pointed to the German Embassy, and in particular to Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr...