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Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstängl, Hitler's onetime pianist-in-waiting, who spent most of the war in Allied hands, was back in Germany and suing the fatherland for damages. He had fled for his life in 1937, he told the Bavarian State Commission for Persecutees, and he wanted $16,150 compensation...
...people in Temper the Wind are a cross section of a Bavarian town, and not so much people as points of view. There is wily Industrialist Benckendorff (Reinhold Schunzel), who has played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go full blast; there is his stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there...
...Niebuhr [TIME, Oct. 21] states that Military Government vetoed a provision in the Bavarian constitution calling for a planning commission, "on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy." The proposal was not for a planning commission but for a planned economy within Bavaria. The Germans were told by Military Government that the question of planned economy or free enterprise was for them to decide, but that Bavaria was too small to have a planned economy all by itself regardless of the other parts of Germany. Nothing was said about a planned economy being incompatible with democracy. Since...
...Europe's democratic forces are behind Byrnes and not Wallace," Friedrich criticized "false alternatives," stating certain forces may be behind neither and pointing to the generally hostile reactions to the Byrnes policy in French political quarters. He added that Niebuhr's information concerning the "planned economy" provision in the Bavarian constitution was decidedly incorrect...
...provision of a planning commission in their new constitution. Our military government ruled it out on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy. Amidst the awful shambles of the German cities such notions of "free enterprise" are as irrelevant as Communism is noxious. It was a very conservative Bavarian who wailed, "How do Americans expect us to rebuild these cities without planning...