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Because he has little sense of what makes news, Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909, last month invited his old friend and classmate, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl of Munich, to '09s 25th reunion at Cambridge in June as one of his aides. Because he has a keen nose for news, huge, psychic Hanfstaengl, who is Nazi liaison officer with the U. S. and British press and Hitler's good friend, accepted last fortnight and promised to bring along a fine set of Nazi propaganda movies (TIME, April 9). Then...
...Protestant pastors quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the trial at Darmstadt of 29 members of a sect called Ernst Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Searchers). Their crime was that they take orders only from God, believe that all man-made laws and governments are the work of Satan. In this they include the Nazi State. Police told them months ago to disband. They did not. They were arrested. But their treason was so huge and vague that even Nazi law could not touch them and they were acquitted...
When the marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909 began sending out invitations last month to 1909's 25th Reunion in June he came upon the name Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. Few Nineteen-Niners could forget the bellowing, arm-waving German youth who won his first Harvard fame playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers...
...GERMAN-Ernst Toller-Morrow ($2.75). Autobiography of a Socialist playwright and Jew, now in exile...
...attention last week to talk of a Habsburg restoration. A political move in which they were more willing to believe was the possible establishment of a Regency for Austria on the model of Admiral Horthy's Regency in Hungary. First candidate for such a post is obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois...