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...into the Battle of Fredericksburg under stalwart Brigadier General Wilhelm Heine. Last week the denizens of Manhattan's cloak and suit district turned out with rubber razzberries and flaunting banners, to welcome the General's famed grandson. Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl came steaming in on the Europa with the reputation of being Adolf Hitler's strapping, eagle-browed soul mate. "Down with Hitler and his beast Hanfstaengl!" screamed swarthy members of the crowd of 1,500. "Ship the Hitler agent back! Down with Hanfstaengl...
Hanfstaengl, who apparently had missed his last chance of catching the last ship that would bring him to America in time for the reunion, stowed away on a mail-plane and climed aboard the Europa just in the nick of time...
Shortly after an irascible holder of a German bond tried to attach the S. S. Europa one day last January, the Council dispatched Lawyer Laird Bell to the Berlin conference between the German Government and John Foster Dulles, acting as representative of the U. S. banking houses which had issued German bonds. Upshot of that conference was a slight increase in interest payments on German dollar bonds and a promise by the German Government that it would cease treating European creditors more handsomely than U. S. creditors...
...Star, Ltd., may later become British National Services. In the last five years British pride in the merchant marine has been roughly handled. Cunard's Mauretania, commissioned in 1907, is still the fastest British ship but her old records have been broken by Germany's Bremen and Europa, Italy's Conte dl Savoia and Rex. White Star's flagship Majestic is still the biggest ship afloat but soon she will be surpassed by France's Normandie. Balm for British pride lies on the ways of John Brown & Son's shipyard in Clydesbank, Scotland - Cunard...
Next day no one took much notice when a quiet, middle-aged woman arrived on the Europa, calmly saw her luggage through customs and sped out to the Steinway factory to choose her own pianos for a cross-country tour starting this week in Hartford. She was Myra Hess who does not go in for publicizing herself like most musicians. She does not assume that anyone is interested in the fact that she grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in London, started playing the piano when she was five, stuck to it because for her there seemed no other...