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...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...
...Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht answered Nazi Press Chief Dietrich's charge that Switzerland was giving up "spiritual neutrality": "We reject spiritual eunuchry. Away with mental castration which goes by the name of spiritual neutrality! Statesmen of great powers should have learned by now that neither love nor liking can be ordered...
...Dietrich is to Ketcham doBeer that's free. Willoughby enough? I Lynch's some of mine at the Brown game. At any rate, Le Boutillier of it is that the Harvards have a good team. I Pickett the Crimson to be the Wolner: Harvard 13 Yale...