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...Friedrich Schönemann that you list as Professor of America in the course offered by the University of Berlin for "the training of governors for conquered provinces" is evidently the Dr. Schönemann who was exchange professor at the University of Nebraska four or five years ago. At that time he made no particular attempt to hide his Nazi aspirations or activities. At least he spoke rather openly of both to me, in return for some fairly patient listening to the Herr Doktor's story of his kidney trouble. At that time I was writing a novel...
...usual the announcement of intention to attack came after the attack. At 5:15 a.m. the Germans struck. At 5:30 o'clock the German Minister to Athens, Viktor Prinz zu Erbach-Schönberg, presented a note to the Greek Government announcing that, because of the wicked British, it would be necessary to attack Greece. As usual the German High Command announced that Yugoslav and British troops having advanced against them, it had been necessary to "counter-attack...
Died. Professor Ludwig Harald Schütz 68, formidably learned German scholar, author of works on physics, the teachings of Confucius, the origin of language, the soul of Japan; in Frankfurt-am-Main. Master of 200 languages and dialects Dr. Schütz once put a U. S. Indian circus team in their place by informing them in their own tongue that they were not Sioux as they advertised, but Pawnees...
...last week's tournament was some thing of a milestone in U. S. figure skating. Among this year's contestants there were none who could hold a candle to Sonja Henie (ten times world's champion), Karl Schäfer (seven times world's champion), nor even Megan Taylor (current world's champion). But in the novice class was a perky 13-year-old, Anne Robinson, a collateral descendant of Jackson Haines. Little Anne has been skating only three years, but she won the Eastern championship four weeks ago. Last week, in her first national...
...Next day, after a repeat performance had drawn titters, hisses and shouts, Conductor Stokowski turned and gently chided the audience: "We don't ask you to like this music or to dislike it, but to give it a fair chance. I would like to thank those who received Schönberg with an open mind. They are in the majority. . . . The others, well, they can't help it. And perhaps," added Stokowski amid more titters, "they are right...