Word: georg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo the mysterious Heinrich Georg Stahmer ("Hitler's Masked Envoy") was reported on his way. It was Herr Stahmer who arranged the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Alliance (TIME, Oct. 7). A Berlin-Tokyo-Moscow Alliance, safeguarding Japan's back door, would be all that is needed to start Japan on the march in the south. A hint of what his country might be up to was given by none other than Ambassador Nomura. Said...
...week Van Wyck Brooks made U. S literary history again by publishing his New England: Indian Summer. One thing was clear about the book at first reading: it is itself a great work of literature. With The Flowering of New England it formed a living body of cultural tradition. Georg Brandes and Benedetto Croce had tried to do a similar critical work for European culture. But Brooks's re-creation of the human side of New England, of the lives, characters, appearance, crotchets of his heroes, and of the landscape through which they moved, is dramatically crowd ed with...
...became plain when it was revealed that, like Gone With the Wind, his big production was to have had a double-barreled big-town premiere-one in Berlin, the other in Rome. But bad weather grounded the plane that was carrying the big show to Rome, so Ambassador Hans Georg von Mackensen had to call off his end of the opening...
Thursday. Finnish Minister to the Court of St. James's Georg Achates Gripenberg was summoned to the Foreign Office and asked what he knew about the peace negotiations. London was naturally anxious. If peace were concluded, Germany's northern flank would be secure, the southern made more secure. The important Scandinavian neutrals-"Norway points like a pistol at the heart of England," wrote Leslie Hore-Belisha recently -would fall deep into Russo-German influence...
...Berlin, whose father is a famous German mathematician now in exile in Russia; Karl Deutsche, a Czech who came to Harvard year ago; Walter Pick 2M, another Czech who chalked up an outstanding record for his first half year's work at the Medical School; Herbert Sonthoff of Berlin; Georg Fleishcer, who was formerly a wealthy philanthropist and educational leader in Vienna and was exiled without a penny because he married Jewess; and Klemens Klemperer, another Austrian...