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This month the entire contents of the old building in Broad Sanctuary, opposite Westminster Abbey, will be removed to the new in Horseferry Road, about eight minutes' walk away.
There must be no hitch, for while the work is being done treatment of in-patients and out-patients must be continued.
"CIGANTIC TASK"
"It is a gigantic tosk," sald an officiul "but preparations are now complete.
"We shall remove about 100,000 records of past patients. These are of vital medical importance. "When they have been the new building they must be clussifted and arranged in apple-pie order.
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"During the first few days mis- cellaneous equipment will be trans- ferred.
"Four, days inter the operating theatre furnishings will be taken over, but one operating theatre will be kept going in the old bullding for emergency cases.
"Pathological and bacteriological equipment will be removed on the same day.
hospital, guaranteed the lust £10,- 000. They agreed to spill this, be- been called upon to pay £3,500 each. tween tiem, Actually they have
"Mr. Docker has already given over £50,000. Sir Edward Meyerstein has given over £15,000,"
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Franco's Frugal Brother-In-Law
his fervent admiration of the Signor Mussolini Don Ramon Serrano methods of Herr Hitler and Suner, the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Joins a suitably dictatorial frugality, where food and drink are concerned.
At the banquet given to Senor Suner by Signor Mussolini In Rome recently the Duce's own moderation at table was at least matched by his guest of honour.
Recently # friend was at a banquet in Seville at which Senor Suner was "The next day the dispensary will present. The choicest wines succeed- be moved. This will perhaps, be the ed one another. At the end of the most exacting task of all. Thousands meal, which lasted several hours. of bottles must be taken the new Senor Suner had six full glasses be- building and correctly classified. fore him. He had sipped each once
1850,000 RAISED
only. "Later the patients will go to Senor Suner is a fanatic-and their new home, and on the follow-looks it. Pale-faced, blazing-eyed, Ing day all the prople in the cancer the brother-in-law of Gen. Franco annexe at Hampstead will be taken will undoubtedly play a very import- to the specini section which has been [unt role in the new Spain. "lie is on built for them.
ardent Phalangist, and strongly pro- Nazi. He makes no secret of his dis like of the democracies. He is not popular with the generals. GUARDING A MINISTER
June 26, 1939.
HOSPITAL Libel Action
Ten-year-old Jose Matute, hitch-hiked more than 1,700 miles
to Hollywood from Guadalajara, Mexico, to break into movies. Hollywood police found him and Dolores Del Rio. Mexican star, bids him return home.
Senor Suner does not alight from his car in the street. Instead the war is driven over the pavement and into the rather confined hall of the Minis- try, where there is just room for it, jammed against the stairs.
"A special feature of the new hospital is that each unit will have its own out-patients' developmen This is an entirely new which will benefit patients und staff. Rigorous precautions are taken to
The fund of £850,000 has now safeguard Senor Suner. AL the The engine is started some time been subscribed. Of this, £420,000 | Ministry of the Interior in Burgos, if before the Minister is due to leave was given by the public. The last two nequaintances pause to chat on the building again. On more than £100,000 was raised in six weeks. the stairs or in a corridor, they are one occasion, soldiers, police and "Sir Edward Meyerstein and Mr. immediately approached by guards visitors have been nearly overcome Bernard Docker, chairman of the 'and asked to move on.
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R. ERNST FRANZ- SEDGWICK HANF- STAENGL, former friend of Hitler, whom he was stated to have once shelter- ed, brought an action for dämages in the King's Bench Division recently.
Complaining that he had been libelled by statements in an American journal, the "New Republic," of April 27, 1938, the doctor, whose address was given as Gunterstone... Road, West Kensington, sued Selfridge and Company, Limited, Oxford Street, W., who sold the paper.
The case was heard by Mr. Justice Atkinson and a special jury.
Selfridges, in defence, said they had said the "New Republic" in the ordinary course of their business and they relied upon the fact that the sale of the paper by them was mode to a person on
Hanfstoengl's behalf.
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Mr. Eric Sachs, K.C., for Dr. Hent- staengi, sald the paragrapli contain- ing the alleged libel was headed: "Undesirable Refugees," and Included the following:
"Dr. Hantstacng was famous s Hitler's boy friend until he became the victim of a palace intrigue.
"Political sanctuary is supposed to be for the victims of persecution, not the persecutors themselves."
VOLUNTARY. EXILE
Dr. Hantstaengi, Mr. Sachs con- tinued, had been living in voluntary exile in England since 1937 and no one was going to suggest word against the propriety of his conduct here, or, indeed, as far as counsel knew, against his conduct anywhere.
At the age of 10, Dr. Hanfstaengl went to New York and he educated at Harvard.
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When in Germany in 1922 he come for the first time into persunal con- thet with Herr Hitler. Plaintiff was then 35.
From 1022 till the end of 1023 he took an interest in the Nazi Party, which was then being formed. in 1923 there Was the unsuccessful putsch which landed the party's leader in prison.
Dr. Hanfstnengl sheltered Herr Hitler in his own house and hid him
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he was eventually captured. In 1931, by which time Dr. Hunt- staengl had established a reputation 23 a historical writer and was, in touch, counsel believed, with such men as Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Lloyd George, he accepted a position in the Nazi Party.
FRIENDSHIP WANED
From 1833, said Mr. Sachs, the year in which Herr Hitler came into power by being made the German Chon- cellor, the friendship between Dr. Hanfstoengi and Herr Hitler waned. In February, 1037, he left the coun- try,
Dr, Hanfstaengl, giving evidence, said his friendship with Herr Hitler ended in 1934, and since then he had never spoken to him.
Mr. Suchs: There is a suggestion which you interpret in this article as to your having certain perverted re- lations with the person named in the article, is there the slightest foundation for that?-Not the slight- est.
Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C. (cross- examining for Selfridge's): You came to Britain in February, 1937, and in July you brought an action published against a weekly paper here?--Yes.
Did the defendants apologise and compensation? Yes, and In- demnity me for costs.
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Did you bring another action against a daily paper in which the defendants apologised and indemni- fed you against costs?—Yes.
And your character was vindicated on that occasion also? Yes.
Looking back at it, don't you call it rather a dirty trick to wait for six weeks until this issue comes over from America, the only issue. sold at all, and then bring this action at once? We wrote to Selfridge's and I don't call it sporting not to answer nn-i apologise.
PHONE MESSAGE
Mrs. Doris A. Lynch, of Glouces ter Place, S.W., gave evidence, that last May Dr. Hontstaengi telephoned her and said, "If you are near a bookstall where you can buy a copy. of the New Republic' I think it would interest you to see something in it about me." She went to Sel fridge's and bought the paper,
Mr. Roberts, opening the defence, submitted that the action had no merits.
"It is a purely artificial action," he said, "in which the plaintiff has manufactured, the evidence of publi callon, tricking and trapping Messrs. Selfridge to supply a month-old copy a weekly paper in order that he may bring claim not apparently minding the publicity the case will enuse. It is provoked by himself solely to make money,
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The hearing was adjourned.
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