CHAPTER 34––Surreal Saviors During his new life in New York (1940)
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He was cast in a pundit’s role by a Wall Street famished for educated guesses about German war strategy. In early April 1940, Thomas W. Lamont, senior partner of the Morgan bank, invited him to an elegant black-tie soirée and posed this after-dinner question: “Eric, you really know the Germans, what do you think will be the next move?” Through the cigar haze, Eric said that Hitler would do something unexpected.
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