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From Austrian Silesia, in 1754 and 1759, emigrated the Brothers Barnard and Michael Gratz. Their progeny reached eminence in various ways, but none more than Rebecca (1781-1869) daughter of Michael. In Philadelphia today survive charities founded by Rebecca Gratz. One of her good works was to nurse Matilda Hoffman, fiancee of Washington Irving, before Matilda died of tuberculosis at 17. Irving, grief-stricken, hurried off to Europe, where he met Sir Walter Scott and told him about Rebecca Gratz. In 1819, after Ivanhoe was published, Scott is supposed to have written: "How do you like your Rebecca? Does this...
...Allies of territories seized during the War and now administered as mandates by Great Britain. France and Japan. . . . The day is not far off when Germany will also demand restoration of territories seized from her on the Continent" (Alsace-Lorraine, the Polish Corridor, parts of Upper Silesia, Eupen & Malmedy, Danzig, the Saar. etc., etc.). Chancellor von Papen wrote in Der Saar Frennd last week: "The Saar District is German and wants to remain German. . . .* Growing knowledge of the real sentiments of the Saar population leads me to hope-without indulging in illusions -that the arbitrarily created problem of the Saar...
...chief Nazi pressagent, a former Manhattan print dealer named Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl, busy for two days issuing angry denials. The story was inspired apparently by two bad-tempered and most inopportune messages which the bristle-lipped leader issued immediately after live Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia fortnight ago for beating a Communist to death (TIME, Aug. 29). First message was to the murderers themselves to whose defense he had already sent his own lawyer...
...first sennight of Adolf Hitler's open opposition to the Junker Cabinet of Chancellor von Papen. Government officials lost no time in putting this opposition to the test. Acting under Defense Minister von Schleicher's emergency decree against terrorism, five Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia, for so beating a Communist workman named Pietzruch that he died of wounds. That there should be no charge of discrimination, several members of the republican Reichsbanner were imprisoned for from 18 months to four years for brutality in other Silesian riots...
Born December 15, 1862 at Ober-Salzbrunn, Silesia, he first became interested in agriculture, but later took up the studies of the fine arts in Bresiau, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1883 he travelled widely in Italy as a student of sculpture...