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...that he became more & more subject to the influence of Flemish, anti-French thought. He had no personal liking for the French, used to vacation in the Austrian Tyrol and Italy, caused a mild scandal in 1938 by letting his picture be taken bathing near Bolzano with a certain Frau Rosa Weisinger (see cut, p. 32). Leopold had the most solemn assurances from Adolf Hitler that his country would not be invaded, and right up to May 10, 1940, based his policy on them. And Leopold's policy was Belgium's policy, for, as a political King...
...Champion Blakeen Jung Frau, Mrs. Sherman R. Hoyt's white poodle: best-in-show, at the Morris & Essex dog show, Madison, N. J.; from 4,090 competitors, after brief retirement from show business to bear a litter of puppies...
...recent years she has been a proper little matron, known to Austrians as Die Gnäddige Frau, "the Gracious Lady." She has spent most of her time doing complicated 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, chatting with priests, walking out (since she got the habit of early rising) before sunup to feed the neighbors' dogs...
...Brutal Buccaneer." That this war will be ruthless is to be expected of the man who organized the Nazi Secret Police and system of concentration camps, who coolly announced the shooting of Frau von Schleicher for resisting her ex-Chancellor husband's arrest, who, most people believe, plotted the firing of the Reichstag in 1933 and the subsequent purge of Communists. Göring himself has boasted of the sort of war it will be. Long before World War II began he said: "At one order, Hell would be turned loose on the enemy! With one quick blow destruction...
Ruth Gordon, recently brought from Broadway to Hollywood to play shrewish Mary Todd Lincoln, plays an even more difficult role as self-effacing Frau Ehrlich, and plays it better. By shadings of voice, gesture, glance, she becomes the wife who, excluded from her famous husband's death chamber by the presence of his great colleagues and his physician, sits playing the simplest of German love songs: Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. When she can be alone with him at last, he is dead. And her closing of the door upon herself and his body is the picture...