Missions

Adolf Hitler's Man Friday, big, burly, 47-year-old Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who has carried out many a delicate mission in Europe as the Fiihrer's personal adjutant, was last week assigned to another. He will serve as Consul General at San Francisco, replacing the unpopular Baron Manfred von Killinger, recalled to the Reich to report on the bombing of a Nazi freighter in Oakland Estuary two months ago. Captain Wiedemann's mission: to smooth ruffled U. S.-German relations and sell the Nazi regime to an unsympathetic U. S.

Also scheduled to sail from England for the U. S. this week on the same mission is titian-haired, 40-year-old Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfuerst, confidante of the Fuehrer and friend of half of Europe's great. Since the fall of Austria, Princess Stephanie, once the toast of Vienna, has lent her charms to advancing the Nazi cause in circles where it would do the most good.

As a reward, the Nazi Government "permitted her to take a lease" on the sumptuous Schloss Leopoldskron, near Salzburg, taken over from Jewish Max Reinhardt after Anschluss. During the CzechoSlovak Crisis she did yeoman service for the Nazi campaign. When Mr. Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman to gather impressions of conditions in Czecho-Slovakia, Princess Stephanie hurried to the Sudetenland castle of Prince Max Hohenlohe where the British "mediator" was entertained. In London during crucial weeks of the Czech Crisis, she was able to arrange the secret meetings between Man Friday Wiedemann and top-ranking Britons. A frequent hostess to Captain Wiedemann, the Princess squired him about in influential circles in the U. S. last year when he visited the country unofficially.

Princess Stephanie, born Stephanie Richter, is reportedly the daughter of Jewish parents. Many of the Fuehrer's British friends, particularly famed Unity Freeman-Mitford, have protested that a Jewess, however valuable, is no friend for Hitler to have.

The Fuehrer reputedly assured Friend Freeman-Mitford some time ago that he would investigate the Princess' parentage. What he found has not been revealed but, at any rate, his portrait, inscribed "To my dear Princess," still adorns the desk of Princess Stephanie's London flat.

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