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...speakers are Godfrey P. Schmidt, president of AWARE, INC., an anti-subversive organization; Pattrick Murphy Malin, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Morris L. Ernst, well-known New York liberal...
...Generation. World War II cut the supply of rich vacationers, forced the Badrutts to tighten up; the Kulm was sold to Swiss Businessman Albert Ernst. But the Palace is still run by Hans's widow Helen, and two sons, Andrea and Hansjurg, and a new generation scrawls its names across the guest book: Henry Ford II, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton. For its 400 guests the Palace maintains a staff of 300, including 40 cooks, who daily turn out half a ton of fancy meats and 1,000 pastries. The wine cellar is stocked with 60,000 fine bottles...
...plus Saarland industry. At war's end, an Allied court found Hermann Röchling guilty of waging aggressive war, the first industrialist so convicted, jailed him for two years. After Hermann's death at 83 last year, administration of the family empire fell to his nephew Ernst Röchling, 66, who in 1949 had been sentenced to five years behind French barbed wire...
...dismantled by the Russians, it was rebuilt by the Germans, now makes cameras, binoculars and scientific instruments on a par with the West's. Machines approaching Western standards and below Western prices are coming from the more efficient nationalized factories, among them Magdeburg's Ernst Thalmann Heavy Machine Works, which the East Germans pieced together with infinite patience from scavenged old machinery and parts imported and smuggled from the West. In electronics, former subsidiaries of large West Germany corporations, notably Siemens and AEG, have caught up by copying West German products. Some even improve on Western designs...
...crowds began singling out foreigners. Europeans were dragged from their cars, beaten mercilessly while their cars were burned. By the morning of the second day, blood lust was running high. Along Kowloon's broad Nathan Road some rioters overturned and fired a taxi bearing Swiss Vice Consul Fritz Ernst and his wife. The escaping driver fell into the arms of the mob, who doused him with gasoline and cremated him on a bed of bubbling asphalt. The Ernsts escaped, but Mrs. Ernst died of burns 48 hours later...