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Trebitsch Lincoln drifted eastward, intriguing with French and Czech agents on the way, turned up in China, where for a time he seemed to be close to the late Warlord Wu Pei-fu. About the time his son was executed in England for murdering a brewer's assistant, Trebitsch Lincoln became a Buddhist. He had his bullet pate shaved and branded with the twelve circular symbols of the Buddhist wheel of life, took the name of Chao Kung. He made a trip to Germany (where he was jailed for an old debt), later accumulated some white followers, kept...
...more than disarming on that score. What he has done is simply to give a deftly selective account of his own career as an impecunious amateur: the virginal application for lessons; first flight cross-country, by dead reckoning; a siege of "aero-neurosis," parachuting, a flight along the desolate eastward shelf of the continent. By the time he is done he has set straight a number of groundling misapprehensions, has clearly suggested a seeing and reading of a world no groundling can know, has need neither to explain his own love of flying nor to persuade others...
...folded. Among the famed journals of Riga was Das Baltikum, founded by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, chief of the Nazi Party's foreign political office and long regarded as the spiritual font of Naziism. The Hitler-Stalin collaboration has ended Baltic-born Dr. Rosenberg's dream of German eastward expansion at the expense of Russia, and the doctor is now rumored even to have lost the Führer's friendship...
Moreover, in what was once western Poland the Führer would make room for those who wanted land in the Polish Corridor. The hundreds of thousands of Poles in the Corridor were to be pushed eastward into whatever rump Poland the Führer decided to create. Later, some 80,000 Germans living in Russian Poland were expected to be exchanged for the Ukrainians and White Russians still left in German Poland. There were still further hints of greater mass migrations to come, of repatriating other widely scattered German populations in Europe: 800,000 in Rumania...
...this Nazi Ribbentrop clicked with his Soviet hosts. Working long after midnight in the Kremlin two nights running, Premier Molotov and the German Foreign Minister, with J. Stalin sitting in, again redrew the map of Poland (see map). They moved last fortnight's provisional "Military Division" far eastward from the Vistula River to the Bug. Racially the population on the swastika side is almost purely Polish, on the hammer & sickle side it is nearly all of Ukrainian or White Russian blood. Thus the new "Permanent Boundary" is drawn on broad ethnographic lines. It was embodied in a mealy-mouthed...