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...remembrance of these grim events, bells tolled mournfully last week in every Belgian village. It was the 23rd anniversary of Aug. 4. 1914, the day when the first patrol of German Uhlans crossed the Belgian border at Gemmenich. Old Field Marshal Graf von Schlieffen's 19-year-old plan to crush France at a single blow by a wide sweep through Belgium was at last being put to the test. The Treaty of 1839 guaranteeing Belgium's territorial integrity had become a scrap of paper. A four years' holocaust had begun...
...traditional opening performance, Fidelio, on July 24. The spunky old man refused again to have Nazi stations pick up his broadcasts, relented only when Germany threatened to spoil Die Meistersinger by withdrawing two of its most distinguished stars-Baritone Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs),Tenor Henk Noort (Walther). Herbert Graf had plotted entirely new staging for Mozart's Magic Flute, and Toscanini planned to conduct it four times. Of the 27 performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus...
...Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee which arrived from Germany to replace the recently bombed Deutschland. London rumors had high naval officers in Berlin protesting to Der Führer that in sending his best ships into Mediterranean waters dominated by France and Britain he was risking that they might be "trapped." If there were...
...supper during the Antarctic summer of continuous daylight, the Russians remarked they were just eating their breakfast in the middle of their Polar night winter season. The purpose of their expedition was to establish an advance meteorological and communication base for the projected North Pole flight of the Graf Zeppelin, which was subsequently canceled. Krenkel himself told us he was German, after our attempts to converse (telegraphically) in other languages had failed; Krenkel was further handicapped by having to start and stop, at the beginning and end of each transmission, a remotely located gas engine power supply, as he could...
...conceivably in the market for Russian military secrets, and of these Nazi Germany is closest to Moscow. Anti-Soviet rumor factories in Warsaw, Riga and Berlin quickly spread stories of abortive Red Army mutinies in a dozen districts, bloody street riots, even the assassination of Nazi Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg...