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...most important claim of last week was that the British Home Fleet was not in Scapa Flow; had not been there, in good probability, since before Royal Oak was sunk by Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...
Never since World War II started has there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
...absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall's cashier, in the old days a gay waitress who called the boys Adolf, Rudolf, Heinrich and Hermann, and often bragged about splashing beer in the faces of the best of them...
What made Teutons fear and Gauls love Sir Eric Phipps was his wit, as dark and quick as sparkling Burgundy. One night while he was in Berlin, Field Marshal Hermann Göring arrived at an Embassy party late and breathless. Bowing deeply, Göring roared: "I have just come from the hunt." Sir Eric examined Göring from head to foot, and drawled: "Animals, I presume...
Released meanwhile in Berlin was a photograph of Pilot Carl Francke, "the German aviator who achieved the remarkable act of destroying an English airplane carrier in the North Sea, and who was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Goring with the Iron Cross, first and second class, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...