Word: meissner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WITH THREE FACES (243 pp.) - Hans-Otto Meissner-Rlnehart ($3.50). Certain families have the ruling habit-the Adamses and Roosevelts in the U.S., Cecils, Churchills and Stanleys in Britain. The Sorge family is one of the first in history with a hereditary link to international Communism...
...Sorge, under cover of being a Nazi journalist in Japan, operated a fabulously successful spy ring during more than seven critical years until his detection in 1941. With the accent of wonder which belongs to those who have been involved in a frightful event without understanding it, Hans-Otto Meissner, a German embassy attache in Tokyo until he was called to war duty, details Sorge's coups for Communism. Sorge and his accomplices told the Russians: ¶That Japan had rejected a German proposal for an alliance against the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, which edged Russia into the pact...
Died. Otto Lebrecht Meissner, 73 ("Sphinx of the Wilhelmstrasse"), enigmatic Man Friday to three successive heads of the German state after World War I; in Munich. Meissner got an Iron Cross in World War I, in 1923 became Socialist President Ebert's trusted State Secretary, was kept as confidant by Hindenburg, and a behind-the-scenes negotiator between Hindenburg and the up & coming Nazis. He turned up after Hitler's 1933 rise to power as a gaudily uniformed Minister of State for the new Führer. Tried and acquitted as a war criminal after World...