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...Hermann Göring was all set for a go at dollar diplomacy in 1940, said Assistant Attorney General O. John Rogge. The fat Nazi had had a huge sum salted away in the Washington embassy for a political campaign against Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection, but "the opportunity never presented itself...
...crimes trial has been hard on Hermann Goring's waistline (he is down 80 Ibs. to 190), he is not the only one. In Nürnberg last week the new, free German press emitted a rumbling protest that came from the stomach: its reporters covering the trials were not getting enough to eat. Result: the coverage of the trial had dropped from 15 to three German reporters (Allied newsmen, well-fed, were still at full strength). Exhibit A was German newsman Johann Hammer, who had lost 17 pounds in the past five weeks...
There was not another sound as the judge intoned (in Czech first and then in German) the eight-minute-long verdict of the people of Czechoslovakia against Karl Hermann Frank, the Sudeten German leader in the prewar Czech Parliament and later the Nazi "protector." Silently the people listened to the charges: treason, the murder of 300,000 Czechs, propagation of Naziism, and "co-responsibility" for the destruction of Lidice...
Last week Tom Sawyer's amiable hocus-pocus got a nod of approval from a scientific quarter. Said Dr. Hermann Vollmer of New York in the current Psychosomatic Medicine: suggestion is "at least as effective" a cure for warts as X ray or surgery. He documented his case with the findings of French, German and Swiss dermatologists, outlined his own experiments with over 100 children...
Died. Count Hermann Keyserling, 65, German philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...