European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ace of diamonds continued from Pope 10 cutting is to sever the imperfections from the untarnished an after a thorough traces on the with fast chinese the line or lines along which the Diamond has to be split or in or the unas must be drawn parallel to surfaces of the splitting is done by hand and requires a Fine making an incision with the Sharp Edge of a rough the splitter applies a Blunt Blade to the just the right pressure with a wooden or steel Gavel is necessary fragment the Stone in the desired for cutting across the Grain spec Ial rotary saws Are in sawing diamonds a material at least As hard As the Diamond itself is and the purpose is served by a disc of phosphor Zed very set in a vertical impregnated with a paste of Oil and Diamond the Teeth bite at four thousand revolutions per minute through the Dia mond fastened in a steel Dia mond caught in a bag suspended below the is stored and used again on the the Cut Stone is now ready for Oval or de pending on its weight and tucking it in a involving the Artisan manipulates against the rough Stone another Diamond of the same form As required for the one to be still just a Lump of opaque the Stone finally comes under the ministrations of the to polish a As in the other it takes the use of another fitted into a Metal the shaped Stone acquires a facet when it comes in Contact with a horizontal cast Iron rubbed with Diamond dust and whirling at 2200 revolutions per the this is where Long years of experience watches the from time to time he screws a magnifying Glass in his Eye and inspects for size and position of the when he turns the Stone in the cup for another facet since most brilliants have fifty eight exacting Artis try on the part of the polisher for a perfect Stone is a the Oil and grim covered Dia mond is then submerged in boiling coming out of the Bath sparkling and ready to be most famous of the diamonds Cut by the ass Cher works is the Joseph Uncle and namesake of the present Cut the enormous it was a highly crucial for the Job was being done on commission from King Fulward to whom Cullinan had presented it As a gift ass Cher had decided that it be necessary to split the fabulously costly object for three Days he worked at it with specially constructed and finally completed the necessary then the great moment the first Joseph ass hers Nephew the Fate of one of the most precious diamonds would depend on one blow of the the ques Tion would it split according to plan under the blow or would it be shattered into insignificant frag ments it was february representatives of the King of eng land were on hand to Quali fied experts stood and a notary Public was ready to draw up an offi Cial report and Register the weight of the parts after Joseph ass Cher stepped placed the delicate chisel against the brought Down the Hammer the huge Lump fell in two exactly in the direction one weighed the other later these were made into the Cullinan a Pear shaped weighing 516j4 and the Cullinan 309 plus 103 other gems of varying the Story goes that Joseph fainted after splitting the his Nephew Contra my Uncle took a Good swig of dutch Gin and called it a my grass roots continued from Page in the Preitler Days of the Weimar Zecca crusty old Erwin landsat chief county whom lesser German officials fear More than the they do observes germans have no Conception of but simply take the freedoms offered and German officials should have More Power because the people need some one to look up Zecca finds that the Are not Happy with a government which gives them so businessmen Are the easiest to get along with because they Are interested chiefly in maintaining the status quo and fear any sort of popular up much of the Chance for demo Cracy in Germany depends greatly upon economic being More Apt to place material like getting enough to be fore ideas like the prob Lem that Zecca is chiefly faced with is preserving democratic gains Al ready among All these mrs biggest immediate problem is Denali this is reflected All the Way up the from meccas narrow in which Denali fiction takes up More than half his to Stadt Kreis metropolitan District where major Marcus senior officer in the describes Denali fiction generally As the biggest single task of the Liaison and Security both in Ulm and Down in the so has found himself faced with German administrators who Are politically clean but still and an obvious Lack of appreciation for democratic me for in Hoover was confronted with the cases of live men who were discharged from the police department because of charges involving nazi three of these classified As follow ers by a Denali fiction court were rehired As Ordinary labourers at wages hardly lower than the salaries they had received As police in the Case of Zecca claims that its Spruch Kammer has judged fairly but that the court of appeals has been much too in he feels that the stronger nazi elements have been Zecca believes he should have More authority than is already delegated to him because there Are times when the German tradition of respecting Power might be used to if there is any Hope for democracy in Zecca is inclined to believe it lies in its through the activities of the grass roots of a democratic he will have to be planted among its weekends i cover Rookie Clint of and the new York one of the most talked about newcomers in the major leagues this has just pitched a fast one across the Story and More pictures of Hartung appear Page 18 of this weekend material May be  Only if specific prior permission is granted by the editors and if it is not restricted by Law manuscripts or photographs submit us to weekend should be accompanied by addressed envelopes and return weekend is not responsible for unsolicited contributions