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...erect a great Polish armament and heavy industry centre on the Vistula River. Hence Warsaw gave M. Delbos a festive few days. But Poland is notoriously half in Hitler's arms, and long, lean Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister and player of ticktacktoe with General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was adamant against obliging M. Delbos by so much as a communique lauding the League of Nations. The most that grudging Beck would do was sign with Delbos a communique that "both nations are equally devoted to their alliance...
...considered the concerto not up to snuff.) Since 1907 the concerto had rested securely in the archives of Berlin's Prussian State Library, where its existence had been well known to scholars and had been noted in dozens of bibliographies and musical dictionaries. Last April, German Music Publisher Wilhelm Strecker sent photostats of the original manuscript to Menuhin, asking his opinion of the work. Menuhin replied with an enthusiastic endorsement and a request for performing rights, encouraged Strecker to contest the provisions of Joachim's will. Meantime in England a remarkable claim was advanced, remarkably supported by Critic...
...opening hands of a game for breathtakingly high stakes. Green as any card table was the big board at No. 10 Downing Street, and German diplomatic cards were dealt out by Viscount Halifax. Quietly, this lean, cadaverous British statesman laid the secret demands which Adolf Hitler and Herman Wilhelm Goring recently made to him (TIME. Nov. 29) face up before the French last week, in the presence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and Sir Robert Vansittart, who is in London the opposite number to Alexis...
...further decree of the Fuhrer last week, No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring will exercise the functions of Acting Minister of Economics until January 15. On that date Herr Walther Funk, considered a Goring henchman and today a state secretary in the Propaganda Ministry, be- comes Economics Minister...
Died. Philip Alexius Laslo de Lombos, 68, academic Hungarian painter who had done portraits of Pope Leo XIII, former Kaiser Wilhelm, Presidents Harding & Hoover, King Edward VII, Premier Mussolini; of heart disease; in London. During the War when he, a British citizen, sent money to a friend in Hungary, he was convicted of "trading with the enemy," clapped into jail...