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DB-3551

Orch. de la Societo dos Concorts du Conservatoire. L'Ultima Canzone (Tosti) .....Doniamino Cigli. Occhi di Fita (Denza)

DB-3535 Danse Espagnole (Falla)

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May 21, 1940.

I LUNCHED WITH

GOERING

K

oil car escorted by two members of the Field-Marshal's own body guard would be sufficient identifica- tion, but not the Germans.

deer himself.

£2

ARIN HALL, Field- stopped by two S.S. guards in to the wrist, and dark-green siceveless suede leather Jackot Marshal Hermann black uniforms.

adorned with buttons made from Goering's famous Some might think that ding in tan deer's teeth mounted in silver.- ING LOWEST PRICE CARS. hunting lodge in the Schof-

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After saluting, one of the S.S. boys

Around his neck was a red lartan our cards, which were cravat, which was kept in place by asked for taken to a small hut at the side of a great gold pin, and a gold hunting the road, where, through the open dour, we could see both guards with knife in a gold sheath inlold with their heads together studying

Jewels hung from his belt, which had credentials and checking them against, a lypewritten list.

our

In it, Gooring has revived the feudal age, thrown in the baro- que period, and topped off the Then one of the guards returned whole with a dash of Renaissance and asked in English, "Have you a -not the culture of those times, means of proving that you are

the

still more gold on it and resembled in many ways the less costly belts of American cowboys.

On the left side of his broad chest he wore the badge of the German Hunting Association, a stag with u swastika resting between its antlers.

mind you, but Renaissance persons mentioned, here?" splendour, baroque gaudiness My companion and I gave him our The stag, too, was gold and the and feudal high living, in the passports and Press cards, and these swastika was set with emeralds and

Coffee and liqueurs were served midst of which the lord and were also taken to the lt, where diamonds,

in the Viking hall. Goering talked the guards made nolitions from the master gorges himself, topes. passports.

There were four big rings on his steadily and mopped his forehend "We must be about

stubby but carefully manicured from time to time. Eating had and roars at innumerable there," I said to the chauteur while lackeys, who rush to serve him. we waited. "Ob. no," he replied. Angers: the largest, a platinum one turned his complexion from plak to

set with a ruby and an emerald, was florid red and he belched loudly. so wide that he could scarcely bend now and tien. the finger at the second joint.

On an old Norse pedestal and

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Karin Hall, where the smallest We shall make two more stops." beer mug holds slightly over a quart.-

-any.

a common

Ro.

column at one end of the room, with

a spotlight focussed on it was a

"Goering doesn't seem to trust his guests," remarked my companion as we produced our credentials for the THE preax "special to the Telegraphe

LIVE went over to Goering bust of his first wife, Karin Goering, Is used by the "longkong Telegraph"

WE Indicate nows which is afficily copyright The ordinary ones hold a gal- third time and waited while one of

and introduced ourselves, who died several years ago and for under the provisions of the Telecomma pal-

the guards telephoned back to the and more, estions Ordinance, 1914 Each bows as lon or bean the indication "UI is received in Death to the date of publication by means of proving manly strength in it's not Goering," our chauf- a nice trip out?" I said the trip was of gold-we could not tell--but if it two other stations and even to Ber. He shook our hands vigorously and whom the Hall was named. I don't asked in German: "Did you have suppose the bust was made entirety to tour said unexpectedly and with con- lovely but I had been uneasy about wasn't it was at least gold-plated. serve all rights and ferblé republication, among Goering's friends is sither wholly or in part without previous pick up 3 heavy stone mug tempt. "He worldn't care who came. the guards who challenged us all

filled with Pilsner, lift it to the but those others like to th it."

Goering, noticing some of us look- along the way. "Oh," Goering sald ing towards the pedestal, pressed a Ilps with one-hand, and take a

By "those others" we knew he with a loud laugh, "you will become button in the arm of his easy chair.

Himmler and his used to that in this country. Ger- mighty swig, without spilling meant Heinrich

Goering, who has the Gestapo. The tone of the chauffeur's mans like to have lots of omelais to and the bust began to revolve slowly. strength of a bear, enn do it voler made us curious, and we tried

to get him to tell us what he meant. Presently a servant opened a pair easily, and he shouts derisively The reason is not that Holland has when his less virile Nazi friends but be shrugged his shoulders and of doors in the rear of the hall and

became silent at every reference to nodded to Goering. both. West and East Indian posses-fail to perform the feat.

the "others."

best appetite?" the master asked, and that fact would slons, although cause defence chiefs in Washington to put their heads together.

Bernard Lansing, American journalist in war-time Germany, has been What touches the heart of ordinary citizen is the constant re

to Karin Hall, Goering's country mansion. Here is his first-hand' minder of Holland's contribution to -the settlement-and-civilisation-of-the

U.S.A.

description of a remarkable lunch party in Germany's most luxurious- and eccentric household.

GERMANY'S invasion of Holland and Belgium has brought the war home to Americans more surely than any other military development in Europe.

the

The President bears a Dutch name, He is a descendant of Claes Marten- sen, who settled in America in 1650, and took the name Van Roosevelt after his native Dutch village.

One of the leading Republican aspirants for Roosevelt's place in the White House is Senator Vandenberg,

of Michigan, who is also of Dutch descent.

HAD heard tales of life ut Karin Hall, a beau-

"How do you like Goering?" asked,

"Oh, he's a Mordiken ja regular Jellow}," the man replied, his face

bother them.”

"Who has the

then started lowerds the dining room, Icading the way for the rest of us, eighteen or twenty in all.

He kept moving and sat there staring at it for several minutes.

When no one would accept more of the excellent coffee or cognor,

both extreme rarities in war-time Germany, Goering asked if we would like to inspect the rest of the lodge. We passed through a number of claborately furnished rooms and then entered his gymnaslum, which was-equipped-with-quantities-of-ap- paratus for reducing and keeping A rifle range and bowling alley ad- joined this room.

Finally we were taken to the attic, where the floor of one enormous room was covered with a bas-relief re-

We passed several rooms, which I production of an Alpine setting laid noticed were furnished in sharply out with the most complex miniature can with Byzantine decorations, had a sevn.

Many of America's leading.families; tifully situated retreat right in Highling up. "He has a 16-cylinder contrasting styles. One of them, transportation system I have ever

bear Dutch names--the Vanderbilts, the midst of Germany's largest compressor sports modd, and for example and the society columns wild-life preserve and given to he drive it! Never less than of the newspapers are peppered with

New York City was once a Dutch no better than tolerated in Ger- settlement. Its name was New Am- many I was surprised to receive sterdam. Every American school- an invitation to lunch there not child is taught how Henry Hudson,

about fountain in the centre of its floor; Hefe, sald Goering with a smile, goes another had been made to look like was where he spent his time when such names as Stuyvesant, Van Wyck, Goering by the State of Prussia, 80 miles an hour when he

an old Viking hall with heavy oaken it was too wet, to go hunting. He Suydan, Voorhees, Schuyler. Hoyt but as an American journalist through here." and De Witt.

"And when he swears it his stuble- beams and walls hung with ancient pressed a number of buttons, which chauffeur went on, ad- Norse shields and other implements sent railway trains dashing out of man," the miration for his chief fally bubbling of war.

sheds and along tracks while algnal in his voice, "you can hear him all

The dining room was Louts lights flashed and switches oporated the way across the lake,"

Quinze in, decor, 'done in a restful automatically. Passed by the final guard, we en- colour scheme of gilt and soft green; Goering with boyish delight, It came in a large vellum en-

tered a stone gateway and turned a series of french windows provided pushed other buttons to make toy velope which was delivered by

up a drive into a large court Banked a splendid view of an expansive motor-cars and trucks go spinning along highways. At Inst he said. my flat in war on three sides by a low, rambling terrace and a lake behind it. Behind "Now watch," and pressed still ant- messenger to

The building laid out in the manner of each chair stood a lackey dressed, other button. A miniature aeroplane or eighteenth century style, in long with three humming motore took off white suede boots, green velvet from the ground, spiralled into the

air and curved above our heads. breeches and tailcoat with glit

the English navigator, while employ-long ago.. ed by the Dutch East India Company, sailed into New York Harbour in the Half Moon in 1809 and explored the river that is named after him.

Peter Minuit, first director-general

worth less than £5.

The figure of

of the new province, bought ile Island of Manhattan from the In- scarred, gloomy Berlin. dlans with cloth, beads and trinkets message was inscribed in Ger- the North German Bauernhof,

later Governor of man on a six-by-nine-inch white farmhouse.

At the far end of the wuri was the New Amsterdam--Peter Stuyvesant, card, with a gilt eagle perched

1 a wooden leg!

cuffs, but no wig. is as familiar to Americans as Dick upon a laurel wreath surround- lodge, made of stone, and in the ad- trimmings and white lace jabot and

Joining wings on either side were the Whittington is to Englishmen.

ing a swastika as a crest.

stables and storage rooms. Numerous The effect of cropped. German

who stumped about on a

At the entrance to New York hòr-

bour is the Island named Staten,

separated from the New Jersey shore

*

WHEN it had landed Goering explained that it was guld-

That Goering regarded it as a bears' heads and antlers were mount- heads and thick necks bulging out ed by wires so. fine that they were command which could not be re-ed-on-the-walls facing the court, of such delteate Anery was a peculiar invisible. He was obviously-more- by a channel called the Kill van Kull. fused became evident two days Proiected from the weather by the one.

overhanging roofs.

Cornelius Vanderbill, founder of

the Vanderbilt fortune, was born on Inter when, nlthough I had not Staten Island and began his success- got around to replying, a second

ful career by running a ferrybont service between the fuland and Man-envelope arrived, also delivered by messenger. It contained an

hatian.

S we

- of

Interested in lils toys than in his Tho luncheon consisted

guests, and stayed there for over half an hour squatting on his asparagus soup, trout, saddle of haunches and chuckling loudly, to venison, and dessert. in front of himself as he kept the machines . each guest stood four beautiful hustling about, came to a stop, at-

crystal wineglasses representing Outside the lodge, 'n fleet of black The mythical "patron saint" of New

tendants attired as German York is a benevolent old gentleman identification card and informa- foresters-grey-green cont

different periods of French and cars was lined up along the drive and named Father Knickerbocker. The tion to the effect that a car breeches trimmed with dark green, filled in sequence as the meal pro- their heads almost circled by long. German glass-making, and they were to take us back to Berlin. A squad of eight German foresters slood”, by, 1071 for the benefit of descendants of would call for me on the morning black boots, a Robla Hood hat with gressed with two French and two curved bram, horns, and played: old the old Dutch settlers.

of the appointed day to take me brush, and a hurtsman's dagger in an German wines of truly impressive calls of the hunt just before we The first church extablished in Now York Was the Dutch Reformed to Karin Hall.

Knickerbocker Club was founded in

Church (1028), which is now called the Collegiate Church.

ornamented sheath-stepped up and vintages. opened the door of the car, greeted

of the large, us with "Hei** (but no "Hilter"},

Goering had the best appetite of

The car, one The Bowery, the famous street on black, open Mercedes favoured and pointed the way to the heavy any at the table,

started.

the lower East Side of Manhattan, by Nazi officials, arrived on double doors leading into the lodge, He plied food on his plate time legs wide apart. hds arms limbo,

derives its nar

name from a Dutch word, meaning "farm." Near this squalid schedule. Two guards in black one of which was ajar. thoroughfare is n

n church colled St, uniforms, one of whom doubled. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerke, which serves the older spelling of the word. as chauffeur, sat in front.

There is a Holland Tunnel connect-

the wind.

Looking back as my far passed through the gateway, I saw Goering standing in front of his door, his fat and again, and it seemed to me that and his long, thinning hair ruffled by We entered a vast room which ran his wineglass was constantly being the entire length of the holes and in refilled,~-~~-

TUNNY-WINS-Bət- which among other luxurious fur- Once, when his lackey started to ON QUOTATION Manhattan and New Jersey. I was bundled, with numerous nishings, were beautiful Roman sat- remove a half-empty glass at the

FROM several magnificent end of a course, Goering snatched it} Harlem, which was a fashionable re-lap robes, into the rear

seat cophagt and sidential district before the Negrees beside a Norwegian newspaper- Goering calls his favourite artist.

paintings by Lucas Crmach, whom and yelled "Hinaus!" ("Get out of adopted it, is a contraction of Hour-

here!"), laughing violently, when

Inst

and

pre-

SHAKESPEARE

-NEW, YORK. Gene Tunney, the former heavy- weight champion boxer, won a bet of 5,000 dollars to-day from Pro- fessor Jacob Taylor of the Oblo State University, over a quotation from Shakespeare:

But he refused to take the money because he said he knew that the was betting on a certainty,

He was reciting the line "Lay on Macduff"). from "Macbeth" when Professor Taylor Interrupted him Reference to the play proved Tunney to be right. The life occura in hel 5; scene 7.

lem, The Harlem River in the, man who was being similarly northern boundary of Manhattan.

At the centre of the room, standing some of his guests looked up from honoured. He told me what I There is a small section of tho

In a characteristic pose with his hand their food In surprise. already elly called Spuyten Duyvil. The had

suspected that resting on a huge oak writing table, He had dimeuity in keeping the Hampstead Heath of New York is this was to be a party for a num- was Goering, talking to some guests nowing sleeves of hig silk shirt out Van Cortlandt Park.

of his plate while eating, and I half In New York State, New Jersey, ber of diplomats and foreign who had already arrived..

Pennsylvania there are towns, correspondents.

He was dressed in clothes of expected him to roll them above ble couniles, rivers and mountains with } Dutch

names: Catskill, Peekskill,

The reason for the identifica astonishing priginality-long olive elbows.

When the meal was over and we Schuyler, Krum Elbow, Rennselaer, tion card became apparent when how his once fire-coloured were having the dining-room and said that he was wri

green" buckskin boots reaching well Watervliet, and Schuylkill

The Dutch induence is confined, after about twenty minutes, we Buckskin breeches, while silk shirt noticed spots of gravy not only on mainly to the New York ares, but turned off the highway on to a with an unusually large collar, and his sleeves but also down the front New York City, the nerve centro do road and were immediately wide, flowing sleeves which fapered of his jacket. of the US.A