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...turn of the Russian tide had diverse signs: Andrei Vishinsky, in token of the new Russian conciliatory line at the U.N. Assembly, went to Mass; Chou En-lai went to Nanking; an order for removal of the Zeiss factory went to Jena (see FOREIGN NEWS). Noting the signs, the West would do well not to crow in triumph; at best, democracy had won only time to put its own addled house in order, clear up its own inconsistencies and injustices. But in winning that time, the policy of "patience and firmness" to Russia had paid...
G.S.C.'s spiritual father was Frederick the Great, who began its tradition of endurance in adversity and gave the Corps its Prussian base. Napoleon and his defeat of the Prussians at Jena gave the G.S.C. its first great strategic concepts-the wielding of massive armies and the conscription needed to provide the uniformed mass. Two non-Prussians, calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army...
...disappearance was the work of the Nazis. When it became clear that Weimar would fall, an alarmed Nazi Gauleiter ordered the poets' bodies taken to Jena. Two unnamed German civilians-a doctor of philosophy and a lawyer-carried out the order, concealed the coffins in an air-raid bunker beneath a hospital. Then the U.S. Army neared Jena. This time the Gauleiter ordered SS men to destroy the bodies so that they would not fall into the hands of the "American barbarians." But the bodies had disappeared. So had the two Germans in charge of them...
...mile push along the Thuringian corridor, south of the Harz Mountains. Next day the Ninth's 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division amazingly spurted 50 miles to the Elbe River. Next day the Third's 6th Armored moved up 46 miles to the vicinity of Jena. Next day the same Army's famed 4th Armored sped 32 miles across the railroads and highway linking Berlin and Munich. Thereafter enemy traffic had to take the roundabout route through Dresden and Prague...
Beethoven: "Jena" Symphony (Janssen Symphony, Werner Janssen conducting; Victor; 6 sides). Experts agree that this work, unearthed in manuscript in 1909, may or may not be Beethoven. One has described it as 6/8 Haydn, ⅛ Mozart, 1/16 late Beethoven and 1/16 Schubert. It sounds like agreeable, lightweight early 19th Century music, is admirably performed and recorded...