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Sincerest American tribute was that of Cordell Hull. This homespun, intensely American American said of the late Arthur Purvis: "A true Englishman...
Last week angry Nazis joined the French police in hunting the wreath layer, described as "one of the most active De Gaullist agents" in Caen. Nazi-controlled Paris-soir said he was an Englishman, Jean Hopper, whose mother, wife and daughter are in a concentration camp...
Meanwhile he blacked his own dollar-a-pair shoes, mended the little triangular tears in his clothes characteristic of his trade, and discussed with mill friends that Second Revolutionary War, the fight between Corbett ("a most lovely splendid man") and Englishman Bob Fitzsimmons...
...Johns covered everything from murders to human interest yarns. Together with Augustus Thomas, later an eminent playwright, he reported the trial of the Maxwell-Preller murder case, which started out with a corpse in a trunk in the Southern Hotel, wound up with the hanging of an Englishman named Arthur Maxwell three years later. For their work on the case, Johns and Thomas got a bonus of $2.50 apiece. Once he sat beside the driver of James G. Elaine's coach all day, overheard enough of the conversation inside to write probably the most complete story...
This sensational pre-World War II exploit is spoiled by a Nazi guard, who overpowers the Englishman. At Berchtesgaden the hunter's laconic explanation that it was only a sporting, not a shooting stalk, gets short shrift. An extra-special Nazi third degree fails to alter his story. Unable to get his signature to a faked confession that the act was an attempted assassination with the knowledge of the British Government, the Nazis fling him into the ravine and leave him for dead. He escapes to England...