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Foreign News: Surviving Ebert

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TIME

Nineteen German businessmen descended the gangplank of the S. S. Deutschland in Manhattan, at their head Friedrich Ebert Jr., successful journalist, son of the late famed first President of Germany. Serious, purposeful, the delegation set out to tour U. S. industrial centres. Of President Ebert’s three sons, Ebert Jr. alone survives. His brothers were killed during the War.

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