Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Jacob Napp, who kept a Buenos Aires waterfront saloon. Arrested, he sang on his boss as well as his subordinates (TIME, Dec. 28) and last week furnished Argentina's Supreme Court with evidence necessary to open legal proceedings against German Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr. At the request of the Court, the Foreign Office demanded that the German Embassy waive Niebuhr's diplomatic immunity and permit him to stand trial...
When they did, it was never long before someone slipped into a phone booth and called Captain Dietrich Niebuhr, naval attache of the German Embassy. "My cousin is on the Gneisenau" he would say, and the clever captain would know he was talking to an agent with valuable information. When the merchant ships put to sea they ran into Nazi U-boats with uncanny regularity. Many were sunk. Napp received 400 pesos a month and expense money, and he earned his pay many times over...
...catch included a deep-sea diver who had volunteered to attach time bombs to the keels of Allied ships in Buenos Aires harbor. His activities and those of other agents, including a Swiss and Paraguayan, pointed to the German Embassy, and in particular to Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, noted writer and authority on International Affairs, lectured Saturday night under the auspices of the Post-War Council in Winthrop Common Room on the subject of "Christianity and Power Politics...
Future peace, Niebuhr said, would depend upon the co-operation of intergovernmental groups, where labor and agricultural elements in one nation would join with those of other countries in a common objective...