PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS

For the first part of the week the white-whiskered old man at Doorn did pretty much as he had done every day for the past 21 years--worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1914 was a long way off. And the years since that morning in 1918 when they had hustled him out of Germany had been quiet years. No longer did people hate him. No longer did people want to see him hung. And no longer was there noise of guns over Europe.

When one day over his radio he heard that his Fatherland had marched into Poland and, two days later, that England & France had gone to war against Germany, the 80-year-old man was awakened out of his life-end siesta. He called his wife Hermine and entourage into his modest living room and led them in prayer. Then he went upstairs, knelt by the bed where his first wife, Empress Augusta-Victoria had died 18 years before, and prayed again, alone. After that the old man seemed to take a new lease on life. Downstairs, in the great hall, he spread before him a map of Poland and, as once again he heard the boom of cannon on the Western front, he began sticking little colored pins along the battlefronts of 1939.

Persona grata with the Nazi regime, no exile, Wilhelm's oldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst, now 57, was discovered living quietly in Potsdam, near Berlin. Almost forgotten last week was the deep hatred which citizens of the Allies held for the Crown Prince, almost forgotten such famed cartoons as the one the Chicago Herald printed in World War I (see cut). Caption: "Drink up, and let's go."

New York City's Hitler-hating Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia broadcast that he would allow no protest rallies before foreign consulates, urged against provocations at public meetings, warned: "The battles will be fought on the fields of Europe. They cannot be fought or settled in the streets of New York."

After a quick crossing made none the less tense because everything had been so quiet, the Queen Mary docked in Manhattan day after Great Britain declared war. Part of the way she had been convoyed by British men-of-war. All the way her ports and windows had remained blackened, her outgoing radio silent. Aboard were $44,000,000 in gold, Banker John Pierpont Morgan, Steelman Myron C. Taylor, Cineman Harry M. Warner, Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan, who usually takes a suite, had occupied a small room containing one small bed. But, said he, it was "the size I always sleep in at home. Really, I don't have a bed half an acre large." Mr. Warner was in a warlike mood, bluntly maintained that "the liberty and freedom we obtained from fighting the British we will now have to fight with them to retain. . . . Isolation is, for us, the destruction of civilization." Author Remarque, whose All Quiet on the Western Front was the most famed novel about World War I, had little to say about World War II. Although he lost his German citizenship last year, has no country, and travels on a Swiss identification card, he had nothing but sympathy for the German people. "Poor Germany," he moaned. "I cannot fight against her."

Elliott Roosevelt, like his father (see p. 13), had his say over the radio: "We haven't been neutral in spirit, because it is impossible for decent human beings to remain neutral in the face of scientific barbarity, but as a unit, as a nation, we will have to make up our minds as to just what our course of action will be as regards this awful destruction. . . ."

Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time tub-thumper for companionate marriage and a Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, called a halt to a psychopathic hearing in his crowded courtroom, snapped on the radio, announced: "This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world," tuned in on a rebroadcast of Hitler's Reichstag speech for one-half hour.

To Highgate Police Court from her rooming-house in Hornsey, North London, hied Mrs. Bridget Elizabeth Dowling Hitler, Adolf Hitler's Irish-born sister-in-law, for the second time on a matter of back debts. The first time (last January) it was the rooming-house tax, -L-9 13s. 10d; this time the electric bill, -L-1 10d.

As gallery after European gallery did something about hiding its treasures and museum pieces (TIME, Sept. 4), Egypt's National Museum reburied old King Tutankhamen and London's famed Tate let it be known that up to August 31 more than 60% of its 2,600 pictures and 400 pieces of sculpture had been removed to three large country houses, locations unannounced. Already moved were 140 canvases of the late great pre-Impressionist Joseph Mallord William Turner. On the floor near the ladies' lavatory, still waiting their turn for evacuation, were the sculptures of very-much alive Jacob Epstein.

After predicting that A. Hitler would get what he wanted and "then announce that he is willing to negotiate," New York City's big, beefy Bundster Fritz Kuhn declared: "England and France will not declare war."

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 Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfuerst, 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 Patenotre, 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.

Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rodin Rathbone (son), English reservists; Brian Aherne, Gary Grant, Charles Laughton, James Stephenson, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp, Richard Greene, John Loder, Directors Robert Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, able-bodied Britons all, and Raymond Massey, Canadian, prepared in Hollywood for a call to British arms. In Paris, Erich von Stroheim, cinemactor-director, who had early training in the old Austrian military, volunteered for the French Army, intended to join the American Volunteer Corps now being formed in Paris, if his offer were rejected.

Francis Neville Chamberlain, little-publicized 25-year-old son of Great Britain's Prime Minister, a $25-a-week chemical plant apprentice, was called up for service, joined the 69th Anti-Aircraft Brigade.

Rt. Hon. Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically every other able-bodied male had followed him into khaki, Major Eden quit the docks, took off his uniform, accepted a job (as Dominion Secretary) in Neville Chamberlain's War Cabinet (p. 27).

Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, famed "Black Eagle of Harlem," who drilled Ethiopian youngsters with wooden guns during the Italo-Ethiopian War, arrived in Paris to make a "comprehensive study of the international situation" as a war reporter for the Harlem newssheet, the Amsterdam News. "I am," said he, "ready to offer my services to France."

*Arnold Bernstein's big contribution to the shipping business was installation of modern elevators in his freight ships so that automobiles could be driven on and off. He pared the cost until the Bernstein Line did 65 % of U. S.-Europe automobile transport. When he was jailed, Studebaker and Ford companies cabled Germany urging his release to provide continuance of vigorous trade for the Reich.

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