Word: hanfstaengl
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...Europe, fastest-ship afloat, today has covered nearly half of the distance between Cherbourg and New York bearing in one of its staterooms Adolph Hitler's Foreign Press Agent, Ernst F. Sedgewick Hanfstaengl '09, who decided at the last minute to attend the 25th reunion of his class which will be held here next week...
...Hanfstaengl, who apparently had missed his last chance of catching the last ship that would bring him to America in time for the reunion, stowed away on a mail-plane and climed aboard the Europa just in the nick of time...
Harvard officials, when word of Hanfstaengl's attendance at the class reunion was confirmed, stated that he would receive the same welcome as any other member of the Class of 1909 returning to the 25th reunion. Although no definite announcement has been made concerning the protection from demonstrations and violence that Harvard would furnish Hanfstaengl, it was understood that certain precautionary measures will be taken...
...Cherbourg when he left for America, Hanfstaengl answered to reporters' queries concerning the purpose of his trip, that "I am a Harvard Alumnus who is going to rejoin his fellow alumni. I have no mission and no interest except to revisit cherished places and friends...
...belief in America's ideals, in American etiquette, and then so grossly broken them by making your bribe public, by giving your letter to the press before it reached President Conant. Was this consistent with sincere, alumna generosity? Isn't it just a bit too obvious? Certainly, Herr Hanfstaengl, for one who represents the wiles of European diplomacy, your methods are remarkably crude. Can Harvard accept your offer under all these conditions? If it does, it will be an eye-opener to more than one trusting American. Charles L. Whipple, Allen K. Philbrick...