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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That for a suspiciously long time he would not reveal his astronomical observations...
...loved his Führer and thought the Jews were everywhere. They had heard how Fritz Kuhn had been arrested, not for his beliefs, but on a charge of forgery and theft from his own Bund. They heard young Herman McCarthy, Tom Dewey's assistant, build up a long, involved case about Fritz Kuhn taking $717.02 to pay for the shipment of a woman's furniture-not his wife's. They heard the judge ask: "Was she your mistress?" and they heard Fritz Kuhn roar...
...ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly stripped and "souped up" for the test. In combat with U. S.-built Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with their long, flat, square-tipped wings have been proved lacking in maneuverability and rate of climb. But Willy Messerschmitt remains an ace name in Naziland. It would be news indeed if he fled his country, as gossip in Europe last week said he had, placing him in The Netherlands...
...called the Polish Government "a farce." Last week the Moscow press picked up a New York Herald Tribune story saying that at Angers "one of the smallest States in the world-probably smaller than any except the State of Vatican City-is being established on an estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating whether to import the latter or ask local French...
...Past Errors." Last fortnight Premier Sikorski was in London, where King George and Queen Elizabeth lunched them at Buckingham Palace and they had long conferences at No. 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. General Sikorski created a mild sensation by declaring that his Government does not differentiate between the German and Russian invasion of his country and added that he had no reason to believe that Britain and France take a contrary view. In tune with the new Anglo-French groping toward a European Union, he voiced "hope that the convulsions now shaking Europe will lead...