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Last week a spectacled German bachelor, visiting England on a passport bearing the name "Ian Anderson," received word that he had been appointed a professor at Harvard University. "Ian Anderson," whose friends know him as Germany's onetime (1930-32) Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, was as glad as any exiled German scholar to get work...
Harvard's Professor-designate Brüning today bears a few traces of the days when, from his offices in Radziwill Palace, he governed all Germany. A Catholic who entered the Reichstag as a Centrist Deputy some years after the Republic was set up, Dr. Bruning accepted the Chancellorship in 1930 from old Paul von Hindenburg to stave off and compromise with what the President then regarded as the Nazi Menace. In his two stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag...
Like everything else in the life of Ian Anderson-Brüning since he left Germany in 1935, last week's appointment went unnoticed by the German press. Exile Brüning, who is critical of present-day Germany but not bitter, resembles Exile Napoleon Bonaparte only in that he is currently writing his memoirs. At Harvard, where he delivered a series of Godkin lectures on Germany last year, Herr Brüning will next term be a full-fledged faculty member. As such he will give a course on international economic policies, tutor a few advanced students, draw...
While a great roll of blueprints was arriving at a Shanghai shipyard last week, a number of wealthy U. S. sportsmen were receiving in their morning mail an illustrated brochure entitled "A CRUISE FROM HONG KONG TO PARIS ABOARD AN OCEAN-GOING NING PO JUNK. It is the idea of a few men who have sailed together before. They need a few additional subscribing shipmates." Subscription for a six-month cruise in the poop of a Chinese junk: $3,000 in advance. Not quite so mad as it sounded was the Ning Po Junk expedition. It was a bitter blow...
They had cleared Hongkong's headland when there appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been...