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...compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen at the end of this month. To escape from the harmonicas, he may try the palace of Herrenchiemsee near Munich, where chamber music will be performed by the light of 4,000 candles. If, on the other hand, he wants solid...
Died. Brigadier General John Hartman Morgan, 79, British lawyer and top authority on constitutional law; at Wootton Bassett, England. General Morgan was legal adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nürnberg from 1947 to 1949, advised the prosecution in the postwar treason trial of Nazi Broadcaster William ("Lord Haw Haw") Joyce, which led to Joyce's hanging...
...typical Faure legend has it that he committed the 1,000-page tax catalogue to memory in four days, amazed the Assembly by answering questions on a complex tax proposal for two hours without preparation or notes. Later, he served as a French prosecutor in the Nürnberg trials, then persuaded the Radical Socialists to give him a constituency in the Jura district, arrived in the Assembly announcing: "I'd like to become a Minister; my constituents would be so pleased...
Some American readers may be piqued to find that Author Duff does not think much of U.S. hangmanship. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, the U.S. executioner at the Nürnberg war-crimes trials, was accused of bungling the job. "Wherever I look among accounts of American hangings," writes Duff, "I find something to indicate a certain lack of dispatch. Yet there is one great comfort: America's hanged die as certainly as England...
...After Grand Admiral Doenitz (now in Berlin's Spandau jail), Goebbels (who shot himself), Martin Bormann (still missing, presumed alive), Seyss-Inquart (hanged at Nürnberg), and Gauleiter Paul Giesler (killed...