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...Marienkirche, in the eastern sector of Berlin, is a grave, 13th century church with the mien of a sanctuary and the promise of a mighty fortress. It stands behind the Iron Curtain of Christendom's enemy, and there are signs of struggle within and around it. Some of the choir boys who will sing its 16th century chorales in this troubled Eastertide wear the bright blue shirts of the Freie Deutsche Ju-gend, East Germany's Communist youth group. Last February, one of its clergy, Pastor Reinhold George, was arrested by Red security police a few yards from...
...Milan's La Scala Opera, appearing in San Francisco as a guest conductor, had interruption troubles, too. Midway through Brahms's Third Symphony, he turned his back on the orchestra, held up his hand to stop the music. On the verge of verbally chastising a murmuring sector of the audience, words failed him, but the murmuring stopped. Later, after a second dose of the silent treatment, the noisemakers got the point. At the end of the concert, Conductor de Sabata bowed to louder-than-ordinary applause...
East Germans in general seemed to know more about the Harvard president than did West Germans. Fischelis, who spent several days in Berlin interviewing East German refugees, credits this knowledge to RIAS, which is beamed to the East Zone of Germany. Since Conant's appointment, Radio in American Sector has given much attention to the details of his life...
Fresh Furrows. The sunlessness of life in West Berlin is an observable thing. It is reflected in the headlines, telling of fresh furrows in the "dead zone" which the Reds are digging between their own sector of Berlin and Communist East Germany beyond. It shows in shabby gangs of unemployed who shovel slush out of ice-clogged streets-obviously refugees unused to manual labor...
They slip into West Berlin furtively, usually on a streetcar or subway train. Dazed by fright and fatigue, they seek out a policeman; he directs them to a three-story brick building in Kuno Fischer Strasse in the British sector. In a jostle overhung with the smell of sweat and disinfectant, they are registered and assigned to a refugee center. Berlin now has 78 of them, large & small. One is a former bomb shelter without windows. Another, which I visited last week, is a hastily reconditioned former factory where each of 11,800 refugees gets a cot, about...