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Last week Nazi police discovered that some of Germany's tenderhearted Hausfrauen were "spoiling out-of-bounds" their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler's fighting men. In Mainz a special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...
...Born. To Frau Joachim von Ribbentrop, wife of Nazi Germany's onetime champagne salesman Foreign Minister: a son, their fifth child; in Berlin. Other Ribben-tropchens: Rudolf, 19, Bettina, 18, Ursula, 8, Barthold...
...little bundle of letters of proposal rifled from the dim attic of the past. It makes a sentimental hour's reading less jumbled and so more satisfying than M. Lincoln Schuster's recent 563-page Treasury of the World's Great Letters. Editor Frau Scheu-Riesz groups her letters according to the architectural styles of their periods (Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, etc.) which she thinks they mirror. Scraps from the bundle...
...Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision for my old age and for the welfare of my children. ... I am aware, dear lady, that you are the possessor of a considerable income. . . ." The Duke of Sussex, son of George III, to Lady...
...Frau Helene Scheu-Riesz (pronounced Shoy-Reese) began her literary career in Vienna, age 18, with translations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She also wrote a novel, Der Revolutionär, which came out spang during the 1918 revolution, had quite a succès d'estime. The Scheu-Rieszes have long mixed politics and publishing. Her husband, who died before the Anschluss, published some 200 children's books from different languages in an effort to broaden the viewpoint of Viennese primary school children, who were using "dreadfully nationalistic" primers. In off hours Frau Scheu-Riesz organized a kind...