Professor Hamilton's Diary: Feb. 17, 1935

He dozes off while studying; German women convicted of spying, sentenced to death

Any parent who has stayed up late with a sick child can sympathize with Professor Hamilton today. It was Sunday, he rose late and hurriedly got Gwennie to Sunday school, not eating his breakfast until he returned with her at 11:30. “Sunday p.m. while studying I dozed off, and slept about two hours in the middle of the [Philadelphia] Philharmonic symphony concert,” he wrote. The good news was that Mary Elizabeth was feeling better today.

In Germany, two high-born women, both mistresses of a Polish espionage agent, Jerzy Sosnowski, had been convicted of spying for the Polish government and were ordered to be executed by the new People’s Court. Adolf Hitler had recently been given full power to pardon anyone convicted and would be their last home of clemency. You can imagine how that went, but it’s hard to believe how they perished. Read about their case, which pre-dated the German invasion of Poland by four and a half years.

The photo of the handsome Major Sosnowski was obtained from the Polish publication the Polish Daily News.

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