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...regime and no Nazi hothead, who was coming to London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration off Valencia to warn the Spanish Leftist Government...
...some 48 hours Adolf Hitler grew more and more excited about the "insult to German honor" which he saw in the coldness of Britain and France to all schemes for doing anything about the dent in the Leipzig. He was also emboldened by the daily bad news, from Russia, bitterest foe of Germany (see p. 18). Telling old von Neurath not to stir out of Berlin, Herr Hitler rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence...
...angrily rejected within 48 hours-and Mr. Chamberlain went on to make a speech soon warmly praised by German papers. "I must say I think the German Government . . . have shown a degree of restraint which we all recognize," cried Neville Chamberlain. Of the German claims in connection with the Leipzig incident he said: "That was a reasonable claim and ought not to be subject to hostile criticism...
...House's angriest, most random debate of the year upon great issues. Pacifist George Lansbury, who recently talked with Adolf Hitler, seemed to fear the British lion was about to spring upon the German lamb. He wailed: "How many times will you crush the German people?" The Leipzig incident fired belligerent Sir Archibald Sinclair, M. P., to make a fiery speech, at the climax of which he cried: "Remember the Maine...
When James Hampton Kirkland of Spartanburg, S. C., eight years out of the University of Leipzig, took over Vanderbilt in 1893, it was chiefly because the bickering Methodist Episcopal bishops who ran it could agree on none but a dark horse candidate. Twenty years earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee...