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...biggest privately owned yachts in the world. Sleek, white and splendidly appointed inside, as long as a destroyer and a lot wider, she used to carry a crew of 315. Last week the Southern Cross was tied up tight to a pier in Veracruz. Her owner, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, No. 1 tycoon of Sweden, had given it to the Government of Mexico. If he had not done so, the Mexican Government might have taken it anyway. Quite clearly, Mexico did not want Axel Wenner-Gren to make personal use of the Southern Cross...
...bewildering. Was not Mexico at war with Germany? And had not Germany been charged with the brutal sinking of the Athenia, back in 1939's fateful September? And had not Owner Axel Wenner-Gren providentially happened along in the Southern Cross and picked up 399 of the Athenia's survivors...
What a Book! People said the most dreadful, the most ridiculous things about Axel Wenner-Gren. They said he was "the most mysterious man in the Western Hemisphere." They said he was "one of the most fantastic figures in the world." They said he was "the richest man on the face of the earth." "What a book he'll make some day," a newspaperman sighed and someone else added: "Yes, preferably by Aldous Huxley...
...people ever saw in Axel Wenner-Gren what he claims to see in himself. One of the kinder things people have said was that he was an able but harmless fellow afflicted by delusions of grandeur. Others, with more calumny, have said that he was the Axis super-agent for the Western Hemisphere, told off to: 1) soften up Latin America for the Axis; 2) harden it up against North America...
Dove in Hornets' Nest. Axel Wenner-Gren was not used to such treatment. He was used to being treated as a king-the industrial king he is-not as a criminal. And he was a king who had won his crown. Born to a Swedish export dealer 61 years ago, Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt...