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...Being gunned by enemy ship of Graf Spee class in Lat. 52.45° N., Long...
...Being shelled in Lat. 52.50° N., Long. 32.15° W." A bit later the marine radio station in Portishead, England, which was relaying the convoy's messages, reported: "Convoy still being leisurely attacked by raider of Graf Spee class, Lat. 52.50° N., Long...
...LIFE OF MY MOTHER-Oskar Maria Graf-Howell, Soskin...
Soon after Hitler came to power, Joseph Paul Goebbels, Ph.D., asked best-selling Oskar Maria Graf to become his official Nazi novelist. Replied Graf: "What have I done to deserve this disgrace? Burn my books! I would consider it an undying mark of shame if my books were not burned by you." Burned they were, and homeless Novelist Graf has wandered ever since-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, the U. S. In The Life of My Mother, "a biographical novel," Outcast Oskar Maria Graf seeks a way back to his spiritual verities...
...within easy range of the torpedo boats based at Syracuse. Heavy darkness and calm sea made it perfect. Fanning out ahead of the main British forces, H.M.S. Ajax flirted with the shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto of his new command: Nec quisquam nisi Ajax (colloquially: You can't do nothing till Ajax comes...