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...should break out, NATO forces would deploy to defend Europe and the West, but not the geographical integrity of their most exposed European member, West Germany. Since taking over as the federal republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...
Within five years Strauss plans to create a new army of 700,000 men either in active service or trained and ready for service within 48 hours. Of these, fewer than half will join NATO forces under latest reduced targets; all the rest will belong to Von Horn's Territorial Defense Command. A 4,000-man nucleus has already been assembled in the last two months around Koblenz and Cologne...
...Strauss has explained to Western officials that the home army will not get rolling until Germany's NATO contribution is well started, will probably ask for approval from its Western European Union allies, some of whom still get nervous at the thought of a new Wehrmacht under strictly German control...
...Richard Strauss, a giant in his own right, stood between the influences of two other musical greats. He acknowledged one when, as he began work on Der Rosenkavalier in 1909, he said: "This time I shall write a Mozart opera." He repeatedly acknowledged Richard Wagner before starting Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), a huge opera that sounds thunderous echoes of the Ring cycle as well as of Strauss's own tone poems. Now recorded for the first time in an ambitious five-disk set by London, Die Frau Ohne Schatten is one of the most...
Slated for unopposed election this week as Jewish co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews: Investment Banker Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. His holdover colleagues: Catholic James F. Twohy, West Coast finance executive, and Protestant Benjamin F. Fairless, onetime head of U.S. Steel...