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Strauss had been ordered to put up a dozen air-raid refugees from Munich "as Hitler's guests" at the composer's country house in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is near Hitler's Berchtesgaden eyrie. Strauss refused. As an old man of 80, he said, he felt entitled to privacy and peace. Nazi officials took the matter to Hitler himself. The Führer declared that Strauss's recalcitrance would mean the cancellation of his birthday celebrations throughout the Reich. Strauss replied that Hitler could cancel anything he wished, and added: "It was not I who started...
Drafted, willingly, into politics by his good friend Winston Churchill shortly after Munich, he made such a name for himself as a top administrator (he planned Britain's remarkably smooth transfer to severe rationing) that he was soon in the key Cabinet post of Minister of Production. For a short while he was widely talked about as a Tory candidate for Prime Minister. But an early ministerial speech was so maladroit that the boomlet promptly collapsed. Said a friend: "He talks like Demosthenes with the pebbles in his mouth...
...Over Munich three P-47s shot down a German fighter. But one of the Thunderbolts had taken a bad hit. Just before his ship crashed, Lieut. John F. Hayden, of Newton Center, Mass., radioed a calm, heart-wrenching message to his mates: "My arm is shot off-I'm going...
Reported Dead. Adolf Wagner, 54, former Gauleiter of Bavaria, longtime crony and "other voice" of Adolf Hitler; in Munich. One-legged Wagner marched in the 1923 beer-hall Putsch, at Nürnberg party congresses delivered Hitler's proclamations in the blustering manner of his chief...
...hangs onto the hope that somehow good will come of evil; a man whose stake is in the status quo, he instinctively makes out a case for appeasement. No figure of real power himself, Alex yet remains the spokesman for the official blunders, delays, defections that made Munich no terminus but merely the last stop before Armageddon...