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Died. Luke Lea, 66, Tennessee politico, who at 27 captured a state Democratic convention, at 31 became a U.S. Senator, at 40 almost captured the Kaiser and at 55 went to jail for a bank fraud; of a gastric attack; in Nashville. In the famed 1919 attempt to abduct Wilhelm II, Colonel Lea and seven other Yanks, posing as newsmen, penetrated the exile's retreat before the Dutch wised...
...German scientists imported to the U.S. as "human reparations," it will be the first time a Nobel prize has been awarded to a virtual prisoner of war. When Professor Hahn did his first atom-splitting, he was chemical head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Later, under the Nazis, the institute worked furiously to construct an atomic bomb, based on his discovery...
...Berchtesgaden one prewar afternoon, Austria's timid Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sat under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. "Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned himself on the porch. Last week Keitel told what happened next. Hitler appeared in the doorway, screaming: "Keitel, come here!" Schuschnigg watched as Germany's tall, arrogant Chief of the Supreme High Command strode into the house...
...hitherto suppressed portion of the Army Pearl Harbor Board report, Regular Army officer Wyman and his great & good friend Hans Wilhelm Rohl, a German-alien contractor, were accused of ". . . a scale of riotous living, drunkenness and both private and public misconduct . . . together." Rohl, on whose yacht Wyman frequently made what he called "inspection trips," was awarded many Army contracts in Hawaii in 1940-41, even though he was not always the lowest bidder...
Across the Alps, Dutch Conductor Willem Mengelberg, permanently barred from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (TiME, Aug. 13) for conducting German orchestras, is living alone near St. Moritz rather than return to face the music. At Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...