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...opposition. The only son of a Prussian civil servant in the fortress town of Kulm (now part of Red Poland), he joined the Kaiser's army in 1914; six months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels in 1932: "The whole National Socialist movement is only a lasting appeal to all that...
...Senators to vote against the Atlantic Pact, which was the genesis of Ike's post as SHAPE commander. Ike's chance to carry Missouri is considerably reduced by Symington's advantage over Kem, a fact that takes on added piquancy from Symington's long and ardent admiration...
...years Louis left the house long enough to make an inconspicuous trip to a local barbershop. (In between visits to the barber, Louis trimmed his own hair with a cutting comb.) One thing he didn't bother to do, however, was register for the draft. Constance Patton, an ardent believer in astrology, never felt the stars were quite right for this step...
Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin, unwilling to appear less ardent than Aloé, joined in the brainwashing. Fixing on the Estrada publishing house as the worst offender, he banned its third, fourth, fifth and sixth-grade readers. Last week cops raided schools and stores to confiscate Estrada books. Congress lent a helping hand: it made Eva Perón's The Explanation of My Life required reading for all schoolchildren...
Their first Salzburg gathering 30 years ago was a different story. They were ardent young musical modernists in those days, and they founded an organization for mutual support: the International Society for Contemporary Music. The charter promised that the I.S.C.M. would "protect and encourage especially those [musical] tendencies that are experimental and difficult to approach." In plain language, the society would fight to get its members' music performed...