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When plans were drawn for converting the old Blücher Palace in Berlin into the U.S. Embassy, architects included a "powder room" for visiting ladies. Last week Gestapo agents marched into the Embassy with a copy of the architects' plan in which "powder room" was literally translated Pulverkammer. They demanded to see it, accusing the Embassy of storing munitions. They were shown to the ladies...
...will be only one-third of last winter's. Wrote a farmer: "On many farms cows are too weak to rise and have to be lifted up." > Although the Nazis promised noninterference in Danish affairs, the Danish telephone exchanges, the railways and the police are controlled by the Gestapo...
Everybody in Washington expected some inflation last week. To try to freeze and police all U.S. prices now would be a task for a Gestapo, which Washington neither wants nor has the time to put together. Even Leon Henderson, given all the power he wants, expected to be little more than a drag on inflation, stopping advances here & there at strategic points. The problem was seen rather in its overall fiscal aspect: that of increasing total output and keeping consumer buying power down. For the latter, the consumer could count on one thing, whether his prices are controlled...
...Audrey Melnyk, 50, who was born in the Galician Ukraine, rose to be an Austrian Army Colonel. Today he heads the Organization of the Ukrainian Nationalists in Berlin-a Fascist movement composed mostly of Galician Ukrainians. He is hand in glove with the Gestapo...
...Hunt is more than just a thriller. Without ranting or tiresome speechmaking, it states the case for Democracy v. Naziism with intelligent restraint. The conflict between Hunter Pidgeon and Pursuer Sanders, the Gestapo chief, puts a man of good will up against a tough guy who thinks that might makes right. Director Lang (M. Fury), thrice-wounded Austrian veteran of World War I and a fugitive from Nazidom, knows that conflict intimately. Because he also knows how to tell a story with a camera, Man Hunt has the kind of polished wallop that Hollywood likes to talk about...