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Despite such quiet programing, there have been occasions of high drama in the history of Vatican radio. In 1938, four hours before the Munich pact was signed, aged (81), ailing Pius XI told the world: "We offer our life, this poor earthly life that peace may win." Two years later his successor, Pope Pius XII, began to stretch Vatican neutrality to the breaking point by using the radio to lash out at Naziism. broadcast sermons to the warring world...
Sensing the Mystic. Religion of a far less earthbound frame was also a prime concern of Germany's Blane Reiter (Blue Rider) group centered at Munich, which strove for what Franz Marc called "sensing the underlying mystical design of the visible world." But what looked like a new dawn for European art quickly clouded with the rumors of war. Wassily Kandinsky began introducing cannons into his abstractions. Paul Klee's expressions of his subconscious began to reflect fear. Klee's Blue Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with...
...some foreign tongue. As a result, the Harvard graduate may dazzle an evening cocktail party with his brilliant remarks on Voltaire's sense of irony or Goethe's treatment of Faust, but he will find himself at an utter loss in the Paris Flea Market or at a Munich Beer-Garden...
...narrator, Ed Murrow offered two reasons for Welles's chilling success: 1) the recent concern over Munich had badly spooked the U.S. public and 2), Halloween merely served to intensify man's "instinctive terror of the great unknown...
Express train D-961 slid out of Salzburg at 9:53 p.m. bound for Munich. It was 13 minutes late-not too bad for the holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing...