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Archduke Felix, tall, thin, third-string heir to Austria-Hungary's vanished throne, bobbed up in Mexico City (first Habsburg to visit Mexico since his ancestor, the Emperor Maximilian, was shot there), denied that his visit was political, failed to get audiences with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky departed declaring that if he had his way Spanish would replace German as Austria's national tongue...
...Tough, tank-wise Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von Weichs has 16 divisions spread through blazing Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, probably wishes he had 16 more...
Twelve days after swaggering Nazi Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von Weichs took command in the Balkans, a few plucky British parachutists and seaborne troops stole three plums: Greek Samos and the fabled islands of Cos and Leros in the Dodecanese...
...Commander's Chief of Staff, and in Britain, where he had been General Eisenhower's right hand. In North Africa his job was to build up forces for the attack on Italy. He and his staff, headed by small, fair-haired, mathematically minded Chief of Staff Alfred Maximilian (Continued...
...Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...