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...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...
...periodically since it was set up by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, to discuss navigation maintenance on the lower part of the internationalized river. But what made last week's meeting remarkable was its atmosphere of mysterious amity. Opening the sessions, its German chairman, Dr. Georg Martius, warmly clasped hands with not only Italian and Rumanian representatives, but also British and French. The cheerful group then shut themselves behind locked doors, and talked their problems over. When they came out, they handed reporters a communique all about their "spirit of reciprocal understanding and cooperation"-but not a word...
...Arts one of the world's great repositories of Oriental art, given it distinction in many another field. But no benefactor happened to hit on medieval art. Last spring the museum drew polite attention to this deficiency by adding to its staff white-haired, pink-cheeked, enthusiastic Dr. Georg Swarzenski, Nazi refugee and a top-notch authority on the Middle Ages. Last week Bostonians who floundered through Fenway snowdrifts to the museum found there the finest loan exhibition of medieval art ever assembled...