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Felix Mendelssohn, the Nazi's No. 1 musical scapegoat, was back in open favor in Germany. In Munich his music led the program of the first symphony concert played in U.S.-occupied Germany. BBC reported meantime that records of both Mendelssohn and Offenbach (also blacklisted) had been found at Hitler's Berchtesgaden hideaway...
What the once internationalist Czechs do want: "Czechoslovakia for Czechoslovakians." The Sudeten treachery, the Munich agreement, German encroachment and finally six years of German occupation have "burned with corrosive fire into the Czech soul and turned . . . their European patriotism into flaming nationalism...
They had other grievances. After all. Nazi rationing had worked to the very last, and there had been some food for every German. Now, in many places, there was little or none. In Munich, 30 days after the surrender, the streetcars were still not running. In a thousand ways, the defeat had added personal inconveniences to the general ruin. The Germans did not like...
...orders. It had been led by three Conservative Prime Ministers-Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill. It had seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink of disaster (Dunkirk and the blitz) and at the peak of its moral resurgence (when for more than a year Britain stood single-handed against the might of German-dominated Europe). In the end it had celebrated a tremendous military victory...
...Outside Munich's Gothic Rathaus, now the seat of the U.S. Military Government, I talked with a short, stocky corporal who told with relish how he had just returned from forbidden Vienna, where he had served with a liaison mission. That mission, he said, was carried out successfully in an atmosphere of trust and good will. And incidentally, he added that the Viennese seemed surprised but happy under Russian occupation, which so far has netted them a larger food ration than Austrians get in the American zone, and also a government chosen from their own people...