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CHICAGO--A 23-year-old alien, until recently an agent of the German Gestapo, appeared before a secret hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities tonight with photographs of United States industrial plants and admitted he had engaged in espionage in this country, Rep. Martin Dies, D. Tex., announced...
...from charmed was the Emergency Rescue Committee. They thought Author Feuchtwanger might as well be talking to the Gestapo. They wondered why he talked at all, believed that, whatever his motives, he had gravely jeopardized the Committee's undercover rescue work in France. They also wondered who had rescued Author Feuchtwanger...
...pathetic 19-year-old youth, whose name is inscribed at the top of a dark page of German history, entered the Reich last week handcuffed to a Gestapo agent and guarded by another. He was Herschel Grynszpan, whose shot in Paris in 1938 set off the greatest Nazi pogrom. Released from the Paris Santé Prison when that capital fell, he reportedly joined the refugee stream, surrendered at Toulon, where he was later sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a French court "under German supervision." In Berlin he will face the notorious Volksgericht, which keeps two headsmen busy...
...best Axis tradition, Spain also posted a death list of names prominent in pre-Franco Spain. Ubiquitous, little Luis Companýs, Catalan journalist, lawyer, patriot, who was acclaimed President of Catalonia in 1936, was discovered in Nantes by the Gestapo, garroted in Spain on orders from Franco...
Under house arrest in a Seville hotel, ex-King Carol and his titian paramour Magda Lupescu earnestly sought the "protection" of President Roosevelt to keep the Gestapo from sending "The Lupe" and shady-dealing palace favorite Ernest Udarianu back to the Iron Guard. She is accused of having been directly responsible for the assassination of its Leader and No. 1 Rumanian Fascist, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, he of having looted the Treasury for his royal master. Powerless and apparently in the hands of the Gestapo, Carol last week had time to contemplate that Europe was fast becoming too small...