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...Devil's General (Gyula Trebitsch; Stebbins). "In a pinch," says the German proverb, "the devil eats flies." But how did he ever manage, in the puny form of Adolf Hitler, to gobble up all those meaty burghers of the German middle class? How could so many "good Germans" have been so bad? This picture, based on a play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer and magnificently directed by Helmut Käutner (The Captain of Köpenick), gives an answer that apparently satisfies the Germans. Made in Hamburg in 1955, the movie has been running for 18 months...
Died. Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, 64, charlatan extraordinary to the 20th Century; reportedly after an intestinal operation; in Shanghai. Born a Hungarian Jew, he soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe...
...country wants," for most of his 60 years, has been Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln. In his day he has been accused of enough dark deeds to get a whole portfolio of Oppenheim characters hung. Born a Hungarian Jew. he added the Lincoln to his name, he said, in admiration for the Great Emancipator. He went to England, somehow became a Presbyterian missionary, turned himself into an Anglican curate, made himself a Quaker when he was secretary to Quaker B. Seebohm Rowntree (cocoa). Trebitsch Lincoln, before World War I, got himself elected M. P. for Darlington, was accused in a secret...
...Trebitsch Lincoln drifted eastward, intriguing with French and Czech agents on the way, turned up in China, where for a time he seemed to be close to the late Warlord Wu Pei-fu. About the time his son was executed in England for murdering a brewer's assistant, Trebitsch Lincoln became a Buddhist. He had his bullet pate shaved and branded with the twelve circular symbols of the Buddhist wheel of life, took the name of Chao Kung. He made a trip to Germany (where he was jailed for an old debt), later accumulated some white followers, kept...
...these Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was heckled to the verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of married men such as was later carried out under David Lloyd George and is commonplace today. Another leak revealed that Mr. Asquith was asked if Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln M. P. was a spy. No action was taken at the time, but this shady character decided to emigrate at once to the U. S. (where he later confessed that he had spied for Germany), eventually went to China and there became a Buddhist monk...