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Last week a spectacled German bachelor, visiting England on a passport bearing the name "Ian Anderson," received word that he had been appointed a professor at Harvard University. "Ian Anderson," whose friends know him as Germany's onetime (1930-32) Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, was as glad as any exiled German scholar to get work...
...Heinrich Bruening, former Chancellor of Germany, has been appointed Lecturer on Government and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics, effective in September, it was announced yesterday...
Harvard has been very fortunate in getting the services of Dr. Heinrich Bruening for the coming year, and he will be able to give much more to the University than the mere prestige of his name. Although he is well known the world over for his political activities, he also is an eminent scholar, having studied the economics of trade for many years. This combination of research and theoretical knowledge, with years of practical experience in government service, has given him a breadth of knowledge and realistic understanding of world problems that can hardly be surpassed...
...first time to be honored on his 5gth birthday, the second to receive an honorary degree from Harvard-he maintained a controlled silence about politics that was exceptional among literary exiles,,extraordinary in view of the anti-Nazi activities of his brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes, when reporters got him to the point of discussing Hitler or his own status as an exile, he was checked by shrewd, matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile...
Tracing the course of centralized government in Germany and the attempts to democratize it from the last century down to the present time, Dr. Heinrich Bruening, former German Chancellor, told members of the Politics Club last night that he saw something of a parallel in the United States of today. The meeting was held in the common room of Leverett House...