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...Wilhelm Kohlhass, in his novel The Officer and the Republic, thrills Nazis with this mystic description of how an ideal young German officer speaks: "His voice had the right tremolo for midnight excitement, the fortunes of Pride and defiance of Death: the jubilant joy of Death with the Weapon in one's hand...
...Tirolean inn, Yella Pessl met Karl Maendler. When he heard who Miss Pessl was, Herr Maendler vowed he would build her a famous harpsichord, set to work immediately on his return to Munich. Another summer's adventure occurred when she played at Salzburg for Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas and Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who pronounced Miss Pessl's Haydn concerto EntzÜckend. Last week Yella Pessl an nounced her present ambition to "shoot" New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia with her minicamera...
...official round of duty took King Edward VIII to the British Indian pavilion at the Vienna Fair, to President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria and to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. He went nightly to the State Opera or ballet with Mrs. Simpson and daily with Mrs. Simpson to the office of Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Neumann who last year treated the Prince of Wales for inflammation of the middle ear, this year took X-rays of King Edward's ears, treated them for the after-effects of a cold. The local British Legation issued twittery communiques which tended to alarm public...
...Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, of the University of Berlin, Classical Philology...
...gasped as Mrs. de Vries appeared to grapple with the Realmleader once, twice, thrice, before she got her arms around his neck and soundly kissed him. Neither grim old Feldmarschall August von Mackensen, who was sitting on Adolf Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards, with horror on their boyish Nazi faces, came bounding forward, the California Kisser blithely disengaged herself, was permitted...