Word: langen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, 48, relict of Portugal's King Manuel; to Scots-descended Swedish Count Robert Douglas, 59; at Langen-stein, Baden, Germany...
Reader Pettingill senses the truth. Although permission to photograph King Leopold III in color had not been granted by the Royal Chancellory even to leading Belgian illustrated magazines, recently His Majesty graciously agreed to sit for a color photograph. TIME'S Photographers Leigh Irwin and Nicholas Langen arrived one morning at the Royal Palace with 16 suitcases of equipment. One of the King's aides met them, ushered them into the King's 40-ft. by 60-ft. study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting...
...German Foreign Office, whose job was to keep Berlin informed of the doings of Germans in Britain. Only one of the three expelled Germans, Werner von Crome of the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, was recognized by the Foreign Press Correspondents Association; the other two, Franz Otto Wrede and Wolf Dietrich Langen, were working for a German news agency specializing in news of Germans living abroad. Of these Langen, supposed to be a close friend of No. 2 Nazi Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was lately thrown out of Fascist Italy for promoting the Nazi cause too zealously there. According to the London...
...Germans living permanently or temporarily in Britain. Last week the New York Times' astute commentator "Augur" estimated that there are 20,000 Germans in London alone-including refugees, businessmen, domestic servants-many of whom have been enrolled willingly or otherwise in various Nazi organizations by such agents as Langen. The organization of domestic servants is so closely supervised that the British Foreign Office has warned its members not to engage German servants who might pick up some delicate tidbit of information...
...German who has undoubtedly been of interest to Langen & Co. is Harvard-educated Ernst ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, onetime chief of Foreign Press Relations in Germany and a favorite of Hitler, who liked to hear him play the piano. Last February Putzy fell from grace, fled to Switzerland, thence to London. He had indiscreetly called Joachim von Ribbentrop Nazi Ambassador to London, "Bnckendrop."* He had referred to the Moors fighting in Spain for German-aided General Franco as the "new friends of Aryan culture...