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...Athens, Max Merten, once director of the Wehrmacht's administration and finance section and therefore the man who signed army orders concerning the disposal of 56,000 Jews from Salonica, drew a 25-year sentence...
...Marine Pfc. Adolph W. Merten took a blurry look at the barroom quintet and decided he saw four Japanese Communists all set to kill an American Army sergeant. Merten, a Korea veteran subject to "Bolshephobia" (i.e., seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable...
...years Herman Merten led an unexciting life. A naturalized U. S. citizen of German birth, he had dabbled in journalism in Portland, Ore., picked up an American wife from Seattle, finally wandered back to Germany. There he plodded along for three years as a translator...
...futile 'for the U. S. to enter the war for she will be too late." ^ The U. S. must prepare to cooperate "economically and spiritually" with Germany on a "barter basis-the only basis Germany now knows, because she was forced to employ the barter system." Added Prophet Merten on a hint from wife Zelah: "I beg, after consideration, that you mention my connections with the American Embassy in Berlin only on your social pages, in a separate story, rather than in this interview which I dictated." Still on the Embassy payroll for two months' accumulated leave...
John Wiliam Merten, Romance Languages...