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Three members of the German Social Democratic Party drove through the evening rain. Near the Neukölln Rathaus an American Military Police jeep halted the car. Party Chairman Max Fechner, Sec retary Fritz Schreiber, Committeeman Herman Schlimme followed the MPs into their headquarters at the Hermannplatz...
Inside, a sergeant brusquely asked why they had been speeding. Schreiber, the driver, replied that he had driven at a moderate pace. Grey-haired, austere Fechner then produced his identity papers to show that he was party chairman, holder of Card No. 17 from the Committee for the Victims of Fascism, and authorized to drive...
What happened next was the subject of an Army investigation last week. According to Schreiber, the sergeant shouted: "Shut your trap, you swine," punched Fechner in the face...
Died. Robert Fechner, 63, shy, self-taught, Trojan-working authority on labor and industrial management, able director of the Civilian Conservation Corps since its founding in 1933; of a complication of cardiac and pulmonary ailments; in Washington, D. C. His pallbearers: six CCC campers...
Back at the White House, tea became a New Deal question bee. Secretaries Hopkins, Wallace and Perkins were there; Robert Fechner (who promised the King a treatise on CCC), FHA's Stewart McDonald (who got on with the Queen immediately after telling her his family came from Skye). A. F. of L.'s William Green went (but C. I. O.'s John Lewis declined). Everyone was impressed by both the King's and the Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find...