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...Southern Germany, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy was among 5,000 visitors who watched the first performance in 16 years of Oberammergau's Passion Play. In some ways it was like old times in the little Bavarian village. Most notable modern touch: the white-helmeted U.S. MPs roaring through the narrow streets on motorcycles...
...cancer. A barrel-chested World War II colonel, "Gussie" Busch, now 51, is a throwback to Grandfather Adolphus. He has a shrewd eye for horses, a nose that can sniff the quality of hops, and he likes nothing better than the periodic Schlachtfeste at which the family, clad in Bavarian costumes, consumes quantities of sausages, pork cuts and ribs washed down with Budweiser...
Germany, he insisted, was least guilty of any of the warring powers in World War II. He smeared Social Democratic Leaders Waldemar von Knoeringen (chief of the party's Bavarian unit) and Kurt Schumacher (national boss), and Schles-wig-Holstein's Christian Democratic Leader Theodor Steltzer as Anglo-American lackeys and informers. He sneered at them for making "such a big fuss about Hitler's barbarism against the Jews...
...Roman Catholic Church this was an old story. St. Francis of Assisi was the first known Stigmatist,* and there have been many subsequent cases (Dr. A. Imbert-Gourbeyre in his La Stigmatisation, 1894, collected the records of 321). Modern physicians have examined enough of them, e.g., famed Bavarian peasant woman Theresa Neumann, now 51, to recognize the phenomenon as real, though they do not agree on an entirely satisfactory medical explanation. Padre Pio's wounds bleed constantly, the wound in his side saturating three to four handkerchiefs each day. The church, which does not hold that stigmata are necessarily...
...statistics released by the Bavarian Government last week document the shocking fact that former Nazi party members hold a majority of civil service posts in the more important state ministries. Anyone who read beyond the encouraging headlines on last summer's election for the first Federal Parliament knew the multitude of totalitarian splinter groups campaigning and electing in Bavaria. Yet last week, the Occupation lifted licensing regulations on political parties...