Foreign News: Missions

Adolf Hitler's Man Friday, big, burly, 47-year-old Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who has carried out many a delicate mission in Europe as the Fiihrer's personal adjutant, was last week assigned to another. He will serve as Consul General at San Francisco, replacing the unpopular Baron Manfred von Killinger, recalled to the Reich to report on the bombing of a Nazi freighter in Oakland Estuary two months ago. Captain Wiedemann's mission: to smooth ruffled U. S.-German relations and sell the Nazi regime to an unsympathetic U. S.

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