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Jewish Max Hecksher was a prosperous clothing manufacturer in Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...
Last week Max Hecksher and his wife arrived in Milwaukee. On the way, they had found a job in London for 17-year-old Helmut. Herr Hecksher, unbroken at 60, had just $2 in his pocket when at last he saw Rose's beaming face upon the station platform. Said he, safe in a furnished room which Rose provided...
...Roman antiquities and in France he helped negotiate the French-Soviet mutual aid pact. He is tall, distinguished in appearance, a good linguist. Colonel Beck welcomed the Vice Commissar, and Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles. The Führer, it was said, had promised Poland a cut in a Nazi dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Although no written agreement resulted from the Potemkin visit, Polish-Russian affairs were left friendlier than they had been...
...Great of Prussia, who himself was a leading carver in the 18th-Century first partition of Poland. His words have not been lost on a 20th-century admirer, Adolf Hitler, who has lately demanded for Germany the Free City of Danzig, at the Vistula's mouth. Unfortunately for Herr Hitler, Poland's present rulers can also read and they showed last week in many ways that they too appreciated Frederick's maxim...
...must sell its services by fabricating and transporting raw materials supplied by others. The economic history of Germany since the third quarter of the last cen- tury has been the history of a people consciously and steadfastly steered by their State to sell services. "We must export," recently said Herr Hitler, a legitimate heir to this tradition, "or die." In the rush to catch up to western industrial powers, Germany has tried ever since 1871 to syncopate history. A patron saint among German economists is Friedrich List, who spent seven years in the U. S., learned to admire Alexander Hamilton...