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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Pearl Harbor, like all Americans working in Germany, Herbert John Burgman of Hokah, Minn, got a chance to return home. But in 20 years of clerking at the American Embassy in Berlin, Herbert Burgman had acquired a German education, a German wife, a son-and an unbounded admiration for Adolf Hitler. He went to work for the Nazis, spouted radio propaganda at the U.S. on the program called "station D-E-B-U-N-K." He blamed Franklin D. Roosevelt and "his Jewish and Communistic pals" for World War II, promised that things would be better when he himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: No. 12 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Berlin, Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned last week to Washington, tired but cheerful. In the group which gathered at the airport to meet him were Mrs. Acheson and Harry Truman. Said the beaming President to the Secretary: "You have done an excellent job." Then Acheson kissed his wife and drove off to report to the President in detail on the conference of U.S., British and French Foreign Ministers in Paris (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Step Forward | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Three Hollywood couples who had announced their separations suddenly decided to try it again: Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature and wife Dorothy; Carmen Miranda and Producer-husband Dave Sebastian; World War II Hero Audie Murphy and Starlet-wife Wanda Hendrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Last year, after conducting at Scotland's Edinburgh festival, Rafael Kubelik sent word to Prague (where members of his family still live) that he was not returning to open the 1948-49 season; he would play Czech music, but play it elsewhere. Since then, he and his wife and three-year-old son Martin have made their headquarters in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Home Abroad | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...which the Lamis made their first hit in 1924. It is set in pre-World War 1 Vienna and concerns a celebrated acting couple who find that their love has grown cold after six months of married life. The husband decides to impersonate a Russian guardsman and woo his wife in disguise. To his consternation, he finds he is successful. Of such sophisticated nonsense is "The Guardsman" made...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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