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Germany-Turkish amity pact signed; Turkey to keep Brit obligations; bars German troop passage; Turkish pub reaction
Labor Min McLarty on time lost by strikes in past yr
Aussa Itals convicted of sabotage; R Negri indictment dismissed; 4 other Negri indictments pending
Under-Sec Welles says German consuls ousted by U S will not be permitted to go to Latin Amer
1941Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic[†]
Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.
1941C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (born 1862)[†]
Carl Vilhelm Hartman, was a Swedish botanist and anthropologist.
1941Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (born 1885)[†]
Otto Hirsch was a German Jewish jurist and politician during the Weimar Republic. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Mauthausen concentration camp.