Word: westphalia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestantism alone to blame for the split between the two branches of Christendom? In the current issue of the Catholic liturgical monthly, Orate Fratres, the Rev. Joseph Lortz, professor of church history at Germany's Münster University in Westphalia, declares that Roman Catholicism must share the guilt...
...parliament's upper house, the Bundesrat, met first. In a simple 28-minute session the deputies, who are chosen by the state legislatures, elected as chamber president Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. When the lower house, the Bundestag, with 402 deputies elected by the people, convened in the afternoon, the drama of free-speech government began. Little Paul Löbe, who had been president of the Reichstag until Göring took over in 1932, was temporary president because, nearing 74, he was the oldest delegate in the house...
Born 60 years ago in Westphalia, Albers was nicknamed "Dante" in his youth because he had a profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students...
House for All. Drafting a constitution for a Western German state at the suggestion of the Western powers was an act of political courage. The Communist argument that a Western German government would split the nation has been losing ground ever since the Russians laid brutal siege to Berlin. Westphalia's Minister President Karl Arnold spoke of the Germans now under Russian domination: "We must be sure that what we construct will some day be a good house for all Germans...
...sseldorf, General Sir Brian Robertson, Britain's commander in Germany, addressed himself to the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament. Cried he: "Come forward determined to make the best of the largest part of your country. . . ." For the foreseeable future, Russian obstruction had made one Germany impossible. On the far side of the Iron Curtain was "unity," Robertson said, but it was "unity with the Czechs and other people of Eastern Europe in a common bondage...