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...Cape & Hamburg. Up to that point, even Puerto Rican police had no real conception of the Nationalists' full, fanatic plans. They had begun to look on sickly, yanqui-hating Pedro Albizu Campos as no more than a noisy reminder of the days when "independence" was the rallying cry of all diehard Caribbean extremists. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his father's Negro mistress, he had gone to Harvard ('16), returned to Puerto Rico embittered by a World War I hitch in a Puerto Rican Negro regiment...
...soon as the Reds' plans became clear, border guards were reinforced to prevent further crossings. West Germany's police force of about 100,000 was issued carbines, tear-gas bombs and steel helmets, got busy building roadblocks on the approaches to target cities, notably Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen. Policemen careened through the streets, sirens screaming, arrested 500 known Communist leaders as a preventive measure. The British called their Fourth Guards Brigade back from maneuvers to stand by for disorders in the Ruhr...
...Communists were more successful in Hamburg, where 3,000 Reds managed to stage a noisy demonstration before they were stopped by police. Sixteen policemen were injured...
...learned that TIME is practically required reading on the Daily Express. From Bombay, we were told TIME stories appeared frequently in the daily press and TIME clippings were considered an important part of every newspaper morgue. In Western Germany, TIME was read on most of the leading newspapers. A Hamburg editor explained: "The name TIME lends authority to the story...
...picture magazine became a 26,000-copy sensation on the day Founder Herbert Ingram, grandfather of the present editor, brought out the first issue in May 1842. It carried spot-news sketches of Queen Victoria's fancy-dress ball at Buckingham Palace, and of an "immense conflagration" at Hamburg. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, the Hamburg sketch appeared on Page One only a few days after news of the fire reached London...