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Edda, Countess Ciano once swam two miles out to a warship her father was about to inspect, climbed aboard and made for the Dictator in the guise of a dripping mermaid. For this unseemly conduct she at once received a vigorous verbal dressing-down. High-spirited Edda promptly did a dangerous high-dive off the bridge of the warship, swam, the two miles back to shore, and afterward in private was praised for her spunk by the delighted Dictator. She is the only real intimate of a man now lonely in his greatness. Al though from time to time...
...last week obese Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring strove fretfully in Vienna to kill time, loitering in shops unrecognized. When he tried to inspect the Habsburg Treasures, an unimpressed attendant told him to come back at an hour when they would be open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just...
...Minister for Education Bernhard Rust last week as that sober, pudgy schoolmaster warned fanatical National Socialist students to cease agitating against certain of their professors and get down to work. "I was greatly surprised to hear a student spokesman say that the student regards it as his duty ... to inspect professors and instructors thoroughly and bring to an end certain of their activities...
...first air bombs of Spain's civil war to fall upon Madrid came thudding and blasting down last week. Later the corpulent figure of President Manuel Azana was seen leaving the capital, as he said, "to inspect our glorious Government forces in the field...
With that comradeship which makes aviators of the world virtually an international elite, with the common herd of groundfolk more or less at their future mercy, German war aircraft factories opened to Colonel Lindbergh. He was permitted to inspect and fly German bombers. He learned enough German secrets to have hanged him ten times over had he been a Jew instead of the most popular of Nordics...