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...mind what party policy should be. Just before the Bundestag debate on the treaties, he decided that the C.D.U.-C.S.U. deputies should vote against ratification; then, after a bipartisan policy declaration had been worked out, he said he would allow a free vote. Under pressure from C.S.U. Leader Franz Josef Strauss, he changed his mind again and said that the opposition should abstain on the vote. It was an unconvincing display of leadership. Barzel made it even less convincing by leaving the interparty negotiations at their height and going home...
THURSDAY: Alexander Nevsky. (1938) Sergei Eisenstein's epic of 13th century warfare in Russia scarcely veils its gung-ho John Wayne-style plumping for Josef Stalin and his then-tough policy towards Hitler's Germany. CH.2...
Giovanni Agnelli, Fiat; Giuseppe Bertola, Brown, Boveri & Co.; Count Rene Paul Boel, Solvay et Cie.; Willard C. Butcher, Chase Manhattan Corp.; Louis Camu, Banque de Bruxelles; Alain Chevalier, Moet-Hennessy; Dr. F. Wilhelm Christians, Deutsche Bank; Fernand Josef Collin, Kredietbank, N.V.; Dr. Paul Dax, Siemens; Sir Eric Drake, British Petroleum; Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, Electrorail; Nils Foss, F.L. Smidth & Co.; Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, Volvo; Alfred H. Heineken, Heineken, N.V.; Belton K. Johnson, King Ranch; Dr. Konrad...
...Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn't put it that high...
Vienna before World War I was a heart of decadence in a glittering shell. The fusty Emperor Franz Josef ruled over a sprawling, ramshackle empire, weakened by corruption. By spending lavishly on his army, he managed to maintain the empire as what Austrian Novelist Robert Musil called "the second-weakest great power in Europe...