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...Monterrey's Herr Guido Moebius is head of the local Nazi organization, commander of 150 trained storm troopers, has a controlling interest in the new radio station XEMR. One of his companies is the Monterrey outlet for Montgomery Ward...
...Danube steamship company, a railroad car factory. After a struggle, the Thyssen group coughed up Alpine Montangesell-schaft A. G., No.1 Austrian steel company. In exchange, the Thyssen group got shares in a synthetic oil plant. In charge of his Austrian properties Göring put Guido Schmidt, who as Austrian Foreign Minister had made reservations for Kurt von Schuschnigg in the Hotel Metropole, his post-Anschluss prison. Other Göring acquisitions...
Spanish Prince Ludovico Pignatelli filed an application in Manhattan Supreme Court asking that Italian Prince Guido Pignatelli and his precariously married* wife, Henrietta Hartford, $200,000,000 A. & P. store heiress, be ordered to drop the titles from their names. Complained Ludovico: "Guido has assumed the designation [Prince Pignatelli] so he might pirate the reputation and prominence of the petitioner. ... By reason thereof he . . . found the doors of New York's best society, which ordinarily would have been barred to him, suddenly open...
...editor's chair of Osservatore Romano, was still flanked by bodyguards wherever he went. Within the Vatican, friends of the Allies grumbled that Pius XII's predecessor would not have let his newspaper be gagged. But the story went around that Pius XII had stiffened when Professor Guido Gonella, pro-Ally commentator for Osservatore, disappeared for two days. The Holy Father threatened a broadcast to the world. Professor Gonella reappeared...
Most of Osservatore Romano's war news had been printed in a column called Acta Diurna, in which squat, dark, astute Professor Guido Gonella, with a strong pro-Ally slant, digested daily communiques from London, Paris, Berlin. Editor Dalla Torre dropped Professor Gonella's column. Without Acta Diurna, Osservatore Romano came out as usual for subscribers, but the last free paper in Italy had been bottled up, almost as good as suppressed...