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...injured, so that their sick and dying spasms could be observed through glass windows by German "professors." Since then, though the French have searched far & wide for the Struthof professors, they have caught only three. Last week in Metz, a French military court heard the Struthof case. Said Dr. Otto Bickenbach, onetime Heidelberg faculty member, accused of giving poison gas to prisoners: "I could have dropped these experiments, but I found myself on the front lines, so to speak, of the war. and I never wanted to drop the experiments...
...Communist leaders in East Germany grew sick with apprehension. Premier Otto Grotewohl publicly admitted that "temporary difficulties" had disorganized the supply of butter, margarine, sugar and meat. Then he made a public promise that sent the specter of Rudolf Slansky howling down the corridors of East German government departments: "[We] will ruthlessly remove all mistakes and shortcomings . . . Those who are guilty will face the consequences...
East German Premier Otto Grotewohl himself admitted that "capitalist elements have succeeded in disrupting the population's food supply." His government last week closed its state-owned groceries in East Berlin to prevent "enemy agents" (i.e., West Berlin housewives) from buying up the rations of the hungry Communists. Neues Deutschland ominously pinned the blame on "the kulaks" (i.e., richer peasant farmers). "They are intensifying their fight against the might of democracy," the Communist paper wrote, "assaulting organizers of collective farms, sabotaging their delivery quotas and not paying taxes...
Last September the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei, an obedient servant of Joe Stalin, invited Berlin's Protestant Bishop Otto Dibelius to visit him in Moscow. German Protestants are proud of bearded Bishop Dibelius, a courageous prelate who has again & again sharply attacked the Communists from the pulpit, and they hoped that he would make a more forceful impression on the Russians than Pastor Martin Niemöller, a political neutralist, who deprecated stories about Soviet religious persecution after his visit to Moscow in January (TIME, Jan. 14). While packing his bags, Bishop Dibelius made it plain that he intended...
Married. Archduke Felix of Habsburg, 36, third son of Emperor Charles I and Empress Zita, last rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire; and German Princess Anna Eugenie of Arenberg, 27; in 1) a civil ceremony, and 2) a Roman Catholic ceremony witnessed by the ex-Empress Zita, Archduke Otto, pretender to the throne, and 200 of Europe's rich and royal; in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France...