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...biggest privately owned yachts in the world. Sleek, white and splendidly appointed inside, as long as a destroyer and a lot wider, she used to carry a crew of 315. Last week the Southern Cross was tied up tight to a pier in Veracruz. Her owner, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, No. 1 tycoon of Sweden, had given it to the Government of Mexico. If he had not done so, the Mexican Government might have taken it anyway. Quite clearly, Mexico did not want Axel Wenner-Gren to make personal use of the Southern Cross...
...bewildering. Was not Mexico at war with Germany? And had not Germany been charged with the brutal sinking of the Athenia, back in 1939's fateful September? And had not Owner Axel Wenner-Gren providentially happened along in the Southern Cross and picked up 399 of the Athenia's survivors...
What a Book! People said the most dreadful, the most ridiculous things about Axel Wenner-Gren. They said he was "the most mysterious man in the Western Hemisphere." They said he was "one of the most fantastic figures in the world." They said he was "the richest man on the face of the earth." "What a book he'll make some day," a newspaperman sighed and someone else added: "Yes, preferably by Aldous Huxley...
Axel Wenner-Gren's most ambiguous public gesture was in February 1940, when at the cabled request of Hermann Göring he rushed to Berlin, attempted to mediate a Russo-Finnish peace. But his associates indignantly declare: ". . . by no stretch of the imagination [is he] an Axis sympathizer." Last March he said: "... I shall always prefer peace to war so long as there is reasonable basis for hoping for peace, but never at a sacrifice of the principles of freedom and progressive democracy...
...Axel Wenner-Gren claimed to control Servel, Inc., U.S. maker of Electrolux products, but last week the company said he had had no voice in its policies or management since 1937, held no stock in his own name...