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Because he has little sense of what makes news, Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909, last month invited his old friend and classmate, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl of Munich, to '09s 25th reunion at Cambridge in June as one of his aides. Because he has a keen nose for news, huge, psychic Hanfstaengl, who is Nazi liaison officer with the U. S. and British press and Hitler's good friend, accepted last fortnight and promised to bring along a fine set of Nazi propaganda movies (TIME, April 9). Then...
...rage. Marshal Cutler, who is also a famed brain surgeon, protested feebly, "It seemed to me that Harvard alumni . . . have always stood for the fundamental principles of the right of free speech and the toleration of all beliefs." In a letter to the Harvard Crimson a Jew replied, "Hanfstaengl is the representative of a government which considers the intellectuals the dirt of the earth and free speech a rank poison." From Boston and Manhattan prominent alumni wired their protests to Government officials in Washington...
...person with no Jewish blood I add my protest against showing particular honor to Ernest F. Hanfstaengl...
When the marshal of Harvard's Class of 1909 began sending out invitations last month to 1909's 25th Reunion in June he came upon the name Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. Few Nineteen-Niners could forget the bellowing, arm-waving German youth who won his first Harvard fame playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers...
...graduate visit with "Putzy's" family in Munich. To the reunion invitation Professor Cutler added a personal note asking "Putzy" to be an aide and wear a silk hat and a frock coat again at Cambridge in June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words of mine what we Nazis stand...