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...reissued Hitler's Secret Conversations ($19), the Führer's wartime table talk (from Volkswagens to the Virgin Birth) that all Hitler biographers have acknowledged as an invaluable source. Among the others, just published or to come, are books ranging from the thoughtful to the frivolous. Helmut von Moltke (St. Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer, paid for his resistance with his life. Without overplaying their hand, Authors Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby make Von Moltke something...
Many NATO diplomats are somewhat dismayed by West German Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt's views on helping to pay U.S. troop costs in Europe. Schmidt's position: "Not a pfennig...
...Germany increased the value of the mark 3%. That move, which will make German exports a bit more expensive, has little economic justification except that it may be necessary to calm speculation. France, for its part, reversed its long opposition to any kind of float. West German Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt hailed the agreement as an "optimal solution"; the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung went so far as to label it "group...
...played here by the international beauty Helmut Berger, Ludwig never consults a plan, hectors an architect or drives a construction foreman crazy. Visconti doesn't even make anything humanly or dramatically interesting out of Ludwig's other major project-rescuing Richard Wagner (Trevor Howard) from his debts and subsidizing the première of Tristan and the beginning of work on the Ring Cycle. Such activities imply a mysterious will and energy that cries out for interpretive speculation; but this would interfere with Visconti's simple view of Ludwig as a moony homosexual victim...
...official party organizations were clearly surprised by the rapid growth of the voter groups and welcomed them with varying degrees of gratitude and skepticism. Economics and Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt observed that "campaigns on behalf of the Social Democratic Party by persons outside the party can easily lead to misunderstandings." Several Social Democratic voter groups announced their intention of becoming a "critical partner" of the official party organization after the election; others might easily be revived for a compelling cause. Conceivably, that could be almost as important a result of the election as the contest between the parties...