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Second came after Laval left Moscow, arrived at Warsaw to represent France at the funeral services for the late great Marshal Pilsudski, who had been rated Germany's best friend in Poland (see p. 23). There transpired the amazing scene of Germany's pompous Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring trotting after Laval. He would, he hinted, like to talk. Woodchuckish M. Laval pretended not to understand. General Göring then politely requested a conversation, which M. Laval granted at the Air Minister's hotel, for three hours. Loquacious Göring had nothing...
...distinguished audience that the Cardinal had before him. Representing Germany was plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
Engaged. Cary William Bok (assistant secretary-treasurer of Curtis Publishing Co.), 30, younger son of the late Edward Bok, grandson of the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; and Helene Boericke, Philadelphia socialite...
...UNKNOWN QUANTITY-Hermann Broch-Viking...
...readers, and not many critics, last year waded through a huge post-War German novel called The Sleep-Walkers. In Germany where it was widely read, its author, Hermann Broch, was known respectfully as a onetime businessman whose philosophic and scientific bent had led him to literature in middle age. Readers of The Unknown Quantity will echo that respect. The Unknown Quantity is brief (240 pages), carefully and clearly written, contrives a genuine atmosphere of intellectual excitement, but it lacks the human charm most readers demand...