GERMANY-LITHUANIA: Eyes East

Eastern Europe's eyes last week were on onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II's former hunting lodge Rominten and upon Memel. Master of Rominten today is Germany's No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, great friend of beefy Field Marshal Julius Combos, Premier of Hungary. One morning last week the Premier, who characteristically has Hungarian soldiers punished by flogging, climbed into an airplane sent by General Goring to fetch him. Soaring from Hungary to East Prussia, Premier Combos alighted to find Hunt Host Goring surrounded by German and Polish officials including the rabidly anti-Soviet...

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