Word: oppenheimers
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...good to Herr Hitler, whose world-swallowing ideas are formulated by retired Major General Professor Karl Haushofer, a contemporary and fellow ideologist of Herr Doktors Rohrbach and Naumann. In Syria today is a direct human link between the Drang dreams of Hitler and Hohenzollern. He is Baron Max von Oppenheim, 81, who has been snooping around the Near East since 1893. Born of a Cologne banking family, short, fat, bouncy, shoe-button-eyed, he has agreeable manners and an Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq) a temple-palace...
...gods was not all little Baron Max was up to during his half-century in the Near East. He was also pioneering the Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad, and serving as the Kaiser's confidential intelligence agent. One of the world's greatest authorities on Bedouins, Baron von Oppenheim still loves to don their dress and disappear among them for long periods...
...world who enjoys ease and comfort and a nice season at Newport. The other is that of a man who likes to squat in a dirty Arab tent, full of Arabs, and eat with his fingers. . . . The desert is my bride. ..." Adolf Hitler was fighting only Bolsheviks, Oppenheim added, and nice persons needn't be afraid: "We are not a people of revenge. . . . We want only a chance to work...
Last week, as Dies and the Justice Department continued to wrangle, FBI made a feeble attempt to get back into the E. Phillips Oppenheim area of romance, international intrigue and slinky sirens. At a dinner of the National Stevedores Association,* in Washington, one of G-Man Hoover's assistants, Inspector L. R. Pennington, "bared" a "girl spy plot." The stalwart inspector alleged that "a prominent society woman from a totalitarian country" had plotted to hire beautiful but subversive girls, had rented a house in Washington, was ready to install elaborate gambling facilities. Army, Navy, State Department officials were...
LAST TRAIN OUT-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little, Brown ($2). Topical soufflé in which the crackle of shirt fronts is indistinguishable from the machine-gun fire in Vienna's streets. Usual cast of beautiful baroness, British Intelligence officer, sexy American redhead, all milling around because Nazi invaders want the person and art collection of a rich...