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...When Herr von Heeren asked what the new Government intended to do about the Axis Pact, the Foreign Minister answered: "I cannot tell you that yet." Later Dr. Nintchitch announced that Yugoslavia would respect all "public and open" commitments which previous governments had made; i.e., it would not respect any secret clause in the treaty. (Insiders said that the pact contained a clause creating a no man's land on the Greco-Serb border, where Germany would be allowed to concentrate motorized divisions.) Still later Dr. Nintchitch elaborated some more: Yugoslavia was returning to a policy of "strict neutrality...
...Herr Walter conducted the Met's only opera-in-English: Smetana's The Bartered Bride. This was no victory for the vernacular; it seemed tactless to sing it in German, as has been done in the past, and no one but the soprano, Jarmila Novotna, could sing in the opera's native Czech...
...Monterrey's Herr Guido Moebius is head of the local Nazi organization, commander of 150 trained storm troopers, has a controlling interest in the new radio station XEMR. One of his companies is the Monterrey outlet for Montgomery Ward...
...Casa Cram in Monterrey (largest manufacturing centre in Mexico) distributes hardware and tools for Armstrong Manufacturing Co., Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., abrasives for Carborundum Co., etc. Its owner: Herr Hans Cram, the Nazi Consul...
Last week Nelson Rockefeller's men were still busy talking to the U. S. companies which had pro-Nazi agents in Latin America. Some changes, with or without Rockefeller prompting, have already been made. Socony-Vacuum's former Monterrey manager, Herr Wilhelm Giesecke (a regular caller at the Nazi Consulate) is "no longer employed." Joseph A. Heedles, the U. S.-born (Brooklyn, N. Y.) member of Mexico City's famed distributing firm of Heedles & Breidsprecher, longtime agents for Du Pont, Remington Arms, Fairbanks, Morse & Co., etc., this month bought out his German partner. Some U. S. exporters...