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...struck Russians who at the turn of the century flocked to Munich to study painting, one of the best was Alexei Georgievich Jawlensky. In the 1920s he ranked with the more famous Russian Wassily Kandinsky, the late U.S.-born Lyonel Feininger and Swiss-born Paul Klee (TIME, Sept. 17) as a coequal in their "Blue Four" exhibits. Then he was all but forgotten...
...colonel, was pointed toward a military career. But he wanted to paint. Sent to cadet school in Moscow and later commissioned in an infantry grenadier regiment, Jawlensky petitioned for a transfer to St. Petersburg, where as an officer he could study painting. Finally he resigned, to take off for Munich with another young painting enthusiast, Baroness Marianne Werefkin. Six years later the handsome, passionate and strong-willed Jawlensky had a child by Marianne's young ward, Helena Neznakomov, who became his devoted wife...
...power. The coal miners, most defiant of the strikers, cut only enough coal for essential services, and threatened to flood the mines if further coerced. Many miners in the Tatabanya and Pecs areas had taken to the hills and were operating as armed guerrillas. Radio Free Europe monitors in Munich were still taping signals from a rebel radio transmitter, evidently moving with a band of Freedom Fighters: "Attention, workers, hold out! The hours of the Kadar regime are numbered...
...crime against humanity." Embittered Hungarian refugees and Free Democratic Party papers took up the cry. Said Bonn's Freies Wort: "Irresponsible promises of help and aggressive propaganda of RFE carry a good part of the blame for the blood bath in Hungary." At RFE's Munich headquarters, European Director Richard Condon denied the charges: "In no broadcast did RFE incite to armed revolt or indulge in cheap, inflammatory propaganda. In no broadcast was the promise of active help by the West given...
...since Munich has Britain's press been so shaken as by the attack on Egypt (see FOREIGN NEWS). Unlike the French papers, which overwhelmingly cheered the assault, British national dailies either attacked the government or went along with it reluctantly, showing every evidence of troubled conscience...