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Prussian of the East. Tomoyuki Yamashita's exposure to Germanics came early. His course of studies at the Imperial Military Staff College was interrupted shortly before World War I by an order to go to Germany and have a look around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics...
...Todd is now a shipbuilder as well as repairer. The British gave Todd an order for 60 cargo ships in 1940. Tying up with smart Bath Iron Works in Maine and the fabulous Henry Kaiser on the West Coast. Todd and associates now haye 16 yards building or repairing cargo boats and naval vessels as fast as they can. The first British ship was completed at Richmond. Calif, last month, only 13 months after the contract for the yard was signed...
...eloquence and for being "so human," he has been the friend and confidant of the royal family-except for Edward VIII, who called him a "sanctimonious humbug." He also is strong-willed and not afraid to speak his mind, even went to the unpopular extreme of defending his friend Kaiser Wilhelm during World...
...stressed in advance by Herr Hitler himself as far back as Feb. 27, 1925. . . . Referring to World War I he said: "The Allies ... did not say: 'We fight Germany and Austria and Bulgaria and Turkey.' No, on the contrary, they always stressed: 'We are fighting the Kaiser and militarism only.' Whether they fought in Mesopotamia or Russia, France, Serbia or elsewhere, the enemy remained the same...
Fritz Hansgirg was the inventor of the Permanente process (TIME, March 3), and his arrest caused Permanente inconvenience. But he was only one of a staff of 180 technicians, consultants, engineers. Production, said Permanente Owner Henry J. Kaiser, would go on. But, he added, "we feel that it is important that Dr. Hansgirg's status be promptly developed. . . ." Fritz Hansgirg had built Hansgirg-process plants in Austria and Korea before coming to the U.S. in 1940. After making his patents available to Henry Kaiser, he helped to plan the West Coast concern. An Austrian citizen, he was high...