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...Ireland the Wagners inspected the National Stud Farm in County Kildare, dined with U.S. Ambassador William Howard Taft III, lunched with President Sean O'Kelly and admired the Dublin statue of Cú Chulainn. the legendary Irish hero. Paris provided the most unusual welcome, however. As the Wagners arrived at Orly airfield, several young girls pushed through the crowd of officials and shed their coats to welcome the mayor in skimpy red, white and blue bathing suits. "Salut, Monsieur le Maire," they screamed, then rushed to cuddle Wagner for the photographers. Mrs. Wagner quickly sized up the situation, firmly...
...mother countries of his constituents. Most of the homelands were happy to have him (all but France agreed to foot his expenses), and early this month the hail-fellow mayor and his blonde wife were off. By last week the Wagners were the most talked-about Americans abroad, from Dublin to Tel Aviv...
...TRUSTING AND THE MAIMED, AND OTHER IRISH STORIES, by James Plunkett (220 pp.; Devin-Adair; $3), is the work of a brand-new Irish author, a Dublin trade-union official who writes excellent short stories on the side. When he wants to, as in a glitteringly ironic piece called The Wearin' of the Green, Jim Plunkett can mount as savage an attack on his country's new nationalist ruling class as the most delirious Liffeyside rabble-rouser could croak for. When in another mood, as in a spine-stiffening tale of men ratting and fighting against Britain...
Since a community of Danes flourished there in the 18th century. Ireland has not had enough Lutherans to support a church. But since World War II, German and Swedish technicians, students, servants and refugees from Red regimes have built the community up again. A year ago the Dublin Lutherans applied for a pastor of their own. To Hans Mittorp, 45, it meant leaving his precious parish at Paderborn, Westphalia and going to a land whose language he hardly knew. When he finally decided, he says, "I took it joyously...
Germany's great churchman, Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover, himself went to Dublin to install the new pastor ("He comes," said the bishop, "as a messenger of Christ"). Pastor Mittorp preaches to a community of 300 Lutherans in Dublin every other Sunday and on the Sundays in between, to 200 Lutherans in Belfast. His polyglot congregation is the first Lutheran church in Europe not organized on national lines. Says he: "This is the right way. The church should not be bound by nationalism but by ties of belief...