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...spread across the entire front page of the MacDonald Government's party organ the Daily Herald. Paradoxically this super-scarehead was a friendly gesture. Silver-haired, silver-tongued Scot MacDonald was welcoming that day the first German Chancellor to set foot in England since the War: Dr. Heinrich Brüning, a young clean shaven statesman of but 46, a Catholic of stern fiber who won the Iron Cross fighting für Kaiser und für Vaterland...
...President in Feldmarschal's uniform and spiked helmet, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius...
Nobody really knew where Troy had stood till Heinrich Schliemann came along and dug it up. Schliemann was not a professional archeologist but a retired indigo tycoon who made his pile and then dug for fun, for treasure, and to satisfy his belief in the literal truth of Homer...
...Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) was born in a Mecklenburg parsonage, apprenticed to a grocer at 14 after a sketchy schooling. Business was Heinrich's dish; he prospered so exceedingly that soon he was supporting his family, writing them how they were to behave. Business took him all over Europe, to the U. S. (he made a small fortune in California, became a U. S. citizen), to Russia, where he lived many years and made a disastrous first marriage. Schliemann's hobby was languages. At 33 he spoke 15 tongues but was concentrating on ancient Greek...
Lately Adolf Hitler's strength has seemed to wane. In the German State of Oldenburg last week he waxed mightily. The election was for the local Diet, but Chancellor Heinrich Bruning of all Germany went out to electioneer against the Fascists...