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...German army was taking such care not to look like the old one that a serious question arose. Would it be able to develop a fighting spirit? Concerned by such matters, West Germany's Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss last year permitted the German General Staff, banned after two world wars, to come quietly back to life. It bore a new name: the Führungsstab, or "leadership staff...
There really isn't any good reason, though, why the Secretary has to be Admiral Lewis Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. In fact, there are a number of good reasons why it shouldn't be, but none of them seem to have occurred to the White House staff...
Aside from keeping the fat cats as happy as they can be in the welfare state, Strauss will have a powerful voice in the development of the nuclear reactor program. Presumably, he is well-qualified for such an assignment, but his overweening predilections for privately financed reactors will not encourage those who conceive of atomic power as potentially beneficial to all the people, rather than the property of a small group of financiers. In some cases, of course, private development is both an economical and an advantageous proposition. Strauss, however, is overly prone to give private capital priority...
...those who though they were well rid of Strauss when he resigned as AEC head in June, his latest promotion comes as an unpleasant shock. There is no reason to honor the man whose treatment of Oppenheimer was not exactly gallant, and who has clouded the facts about atmospheric pollution and nuclear test explosions. In giving him this new position, President Eisenhower has done the country a considerable disservice, one which only the Senate can remedy...
...note of the unusually receptive response from the audience as an indication that listeners are looking for something other than letter-perfect but perfunctory performances of works that can be handled easily by each last-desk player. This is not to say that the orchestra should schedule an all-Strauss program for its next concert, but that a performance which is enjoyable and interesting to the musicians will give much more pleasure to the audience as well...