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Last week, the foehn again rolled across Bavaria and in its wake an unpredictable German politician, missing since he fled from the Russians last September, appeared in Munich as unexpectedly as the warm rush of the wind itself. He was Dr. Rudolf Paul, former minister president of Thuringia in the Soviet zone...
Last June, Dr. Paul led an anti-U.S. walkout of Soviet-zone .political leaders at an interzonal unity conference in Munich. Two months later his name headed the list of prominent Soviet-zone Germans backing a proclamation that damned the Marshall Plan. Then one day in September, he and his second wife headed for Potsdam. He was seen boarding a train at the Potsdam station...
Died. Franz Xavier Schwarz, 72, pudgy bald treasurer of the Nazi Party from its 1925 beer-hall days to the finish; in a Regensburg, Germany, internment camp. Never famous himself, faithful Partyman Schwarz had one of the best-known mailboxes in Europe: Munich #33-where Nazis sent their party dues and contributions...
...Germans hated all the occupiers and wished they would leave -but they did not hate them all equally. The downy-cheeked American boys who whistled at the fraüleins were a nuisance; but the Russians were a terror. To mark the difference in the way they felt, the Munich police gave a party last week to say a somewhat fearful farewell to U.S. Brigadier General Walter J. Muller. Forty cops sang The Beautiful Blue Danube for him. Many Germans fear that the U.S. will forget the Danube, the Rhine and the Oder-especially the Oder, where the Russians...
Bloch had grown up in Geneva-a Geneva seething over the Dreyfus affair-the son of a clock merchant. He studied music in Brussels, Munich and Paris, but when his father's business went bad, he came home to help. As a child, he learned from his father the Jewish lore and emotional melodic strains that permeate his music, but he dislikes being classified, as he often is, as a racial composer...