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...offensive threat. Since the outbreak of the war the German Fleet has been whittled from 18 major warships to a fighting six. They are: the pocket battleship Lutzow, the 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst, the never-in-action aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the three light cruisers Nurnberg, Leipzig and Emden...
Nine of our editors have a Ph.D., and no fewer than 21 studied in Europe-five in England (most of them at Oxford), four in France (the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris), four in Germany (Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig)- three in Austria, two in Switzerland, one in Ireland, one in Italy- and one at the Engineering Institute in Magnitogorsk, Russia...
...Bach in Toronto last week (see col. 2), Leopold Stokowski was busy in Manhattan with Johann Sebastian Bach's tremendous St. Matthew Passion. He turned it into a weird theatrical spectacle that reminded Bach scholars of the audience reaction to the first performance in Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1729. At that time a scandalized old lady rose to her feet and exclaimed: "God help us! It's surely an opera comedy...
...physical chemistry he gave form and content for a hundred years" (Wilhelm Ostwald, outstanding Leipzig chemist, Nobel Prizewinner...
...Sheldon Glueck, paves the way for a distorted "war trial" and a rightfully indignant Germany akin to that which followed World War I. Of the 900 men accused in the original Allied list of 1918, only 45 were included in the abridged "test" list presented to the court at Leipzig. When the trials finally got under way in 1921, two and a half years after the Armistice, only twelve men were actually tried, and six convicted. None of the heads of the German and Austrian governments nor any of their important military leaders were ever brought to trial, while...