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Nonagenarian Mrs. Dora Delano Forbes, Franklin Roosevelt's mother's sister, who remained in her Paris flat when the President's mother returned to the U. S. last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 4), told protesting U. S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt last week: "I have had a full life. How can I die better than by a German bomb?"
Ransomed out of a German concentration camp with $30,000 cash raised by friends, German Jew Arnold Bernstein, once a shrewd, successful shipping tycoon and now a nearly penniless refugee, disembarked with his wife at Hoboken, N. J. to greet his two children after separation for two and a half years. He had made the crossing in a ship of the Holland-America Line, which acquired his Red Star and Arnold Bernstein Lines after he was interned.* In the U. S. he plans to set up in the merchant marine. Said he: "I will be a first-class citizen here and serve this country as I did Germany all my life."
White-whiskered old George Bernard Shaw, who cannot keep out of the news, let it be known that he plans to go to England's east coast, there to be an "amusing" target for German warships.
Off from Versailles on another leg of their quest for a peaceful spot went Albania's homeless & harried King Zog and Queen Geraldine. Latest destination: La Baule on the northwest coast of France.
Day before Great Britain declared war on Germany, the Duchess of Westminster, Lady Maureen Stanley, Lady Dufferin & Ava and Mrs. Richard Norton, wife of a cinemagnate, were politely eating their lunch in London's Ritz when into the dining room swept Stéphanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, Jewish-born international gossip-trader, close Hitler friend and Germany's No. 1 female propagandist abroad. Before Princess Hohenlohe could be shown to her seat a murmur went up among the fashionable ladies, and a voice was heard, loud & clear above the hushed room: "Get out, dirty spy." Imperturbably, the Princess sat down, the ladies went on with their lunch. But as they departed, Mrs. Norton stopped long enough to warn the headwaiter that if the Princess was not kept out of the Ritz from then on, Mrs. Norton and titled friends would go somewhere else to eat.
Two French Cabinet members resigned to fight in the ranks: Millionaire Raymond Patenôtre, dissident Socialist Minister of National Economy, whose mother, a Philadelphia Elverson, once owned the Philadelphia Inquirer; and mild-looking, bespectacled Jean Zay, Jewish Radical Socialist Minister of Education, who once wrote a poem calling the French tricolor "that stinking little rag" (TIME, June 22, 1936). M. Zay's last official act last week was to supervise removal of stained glass windows from cathedrals.