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University of Chicago has Nobel-prize-winning Physicist James Franck; Eduard Benes; Italy's famed Physicist Bruno Rossi and Novelist Giuseppe Borgese; distinguished Art Teacher Ulrich A. Middeldorf. At California Institute of Technology, German-born Dr. Spiro Kyropoulos is doing important research on oil; at University of California at Los Angeles is famed Composer Arnold Schönberg. At Columbia University is renowned Viennese Neurologist Otto Marburg. Alvin Johnson's own Institute has on its graduate faculty ("University in Exile") Fernando de los Rios, onetime Spanish Ambassador; Erwin Piscator, onetime director of Berlin's People...
...France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south of England, Lieut. General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 56, was named. The latter was the hard-bitten infantryman who helped wrestle Narvik from Germany's Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl only to see it yielded due to pressure in the Lowlands...
...voluntarily evacuated the British naval bases in Eire. From Brittany German planes could hop to the centre of Eire without crossing English territory. The I. R. A., a well-organized and experienced fifth column, was responding to Nazi agitation, accepting German equipment and funds. The aggressive German Minister, Dr. Eduard Hempel, was doing a good job in Dublin with a Legation staff said to include 60 "assistants." Hitler always picks the weakest spot to strike...
...came with a surprise and a smash. To the hard-fighting Nazi forces commanded by his good friend Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl, Adolf Hitler had promised aid. With the "Bul" and his men holed up in a railway tunnel just six miles from the Swedish border and facing gradual annihilation by British planes and artillery, the promised help arrived suddenly and unexpectedly in the form of a major naval force including the 26,000-ton battleships Gneisenau (reported sunk in Oslo Fjord) and Scharnhorst (damaged in an exchange of shots with the Renown...
...seven weeks the Allies had been balked by a tall, lithe athlete of 49, whose starving troops call him "The Bull." Olympic athletes of 1936 remember him, Lieut. General Eduard Dietl, as organizer of the winter sports program at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His division of mountain troops, which he trained himself and led, as he did all things, with fierce personal daring through the Carpathians in last autumn's Polish campaign, was bottled up when British destroyers and the battleship Warspite blasted into Narvik on April 12. Steely and aquiline, Bull Dietl is said to have gone aloft...