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...trying not to appear overawed by the pomp of his welcome, gave no hint. He lunched with Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and German bigwigs, then went to the Chancellery to attend to business with Adolf Hitler. He stayed there for three hours. Next day he spent two hours with Reich Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring and an hour with Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess, sat through a four-hour luncheon with Hitler, Ribbentrop, Keitel and others. That evening he entertained the Germans at a dinner and reception at the Soviet Embassy. Having listened for two full days and publicly committed himself...
...When we ask why, we are given two answers: first, if Germany is not defeated, this hemisphere and this continent will be invaded by force of arms; second, even without actual military invasion, we will be unable to withstand the overwhelming economic and ideological pressure from a victorious Third Reich...
...First-Voter: Albert Einstein of Princeton, former citizen of the Reich, citizen of the U. S. for five weeks...
...pathetic 19-year-old youth, whose name is inscribed at the top of a dark page of German history, entered the Reich last week handcuffed to a Gestapo agent and guarded by another. He was Herschel Grynszpan, whose shot in Paris in 1938 set off the greatest Nazi pogrom. Released from the Paris Santé Prison when that capital fell, he reportedly joined the refugee stream, surrendered at Toulon, where he was later sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a French court "under German supervision." In Berlin he will face the notorious Volksgericht, which keeps two headsmen busy...
...British war equipment, sent to strengthen weak-chinned King Carol as an ally, will be shipped to Germany. Sharing the honor of Axis membership, Rumanians were also asked to share its fasting-three meatless meals weekly and practically no butter as large quantities were consigned to the butter-starved Reich. Germans guarding the Ploesti oil field saw three wells burn, firmly declared the fires were accidental, not sabotage...