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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years ardent anti-Semite Adolf Hitler and his then leading British admirer, potent London Daily Mail Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere, conducted their somewhat confused and often ludicrous relations through "Princess Steffi, the Mystery Woman of Europe" (as tabloids tag her), despite the fact that she is a Viennese Jewess. In court, Princess Steffi was able to show that Lord Rothermere has paid her some $185,000 in a period of over five years to be his "foreign political representative." She was now suing to force him to fulfill an alleged promise to pay her $20,000 yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mystery Woman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Cubans broke off negotiations. Then the original Cuban offer was accepted but it was too late. The Cubans, who felt that in receiving 5,000 German-Jewish refugees they had already done more than their share, declared the matter "definitely closed," refused to listen to further pleas. A young Jewess who crashed an official reception to appeal to President Laredo Bru on behalf of her parents on the St. Louis was hustled off by aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freight | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Stolen Life (Orion Productions-Paramount release). Elisabeth Bergner is a tiny, talented Viennese Jewess of 38, of whom German critics were once proud. For five years she has been making movies in English without strongly impressing U. S. audiences. Her English film debut in Catherine the Great was unfortunately shadowed in the U. S. by Marlene Dietrich's ballyhooed The Scarlet Empress, and her most successful picture, Escape Me Never (in which she also played her only Broadway role), was too easy for her to prove much. In Stolen Life, Actress Bergner gets. and takes, her first real chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...political exiles, Dr. Mann was forced to leave his native land, in the summer of 1933. shortly after Hitler's rise to power. His unpopularity with the Nazis was attributed both to his open dislike for political dictatorship and to the fact that he is married to a German Jewess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAMED EXILE, THOMAS MANN, TALKS TONIGHT | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

Princess Stephanie, born Stephanie Richter, is reportedly the daughter of Jewish parents. Many of the Führer's British friends, particularly famed Unity Freeman-Mitford, have protested that a Jewess, however valuable, is no friend for Hitler to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Missions | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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