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Expedition (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). An Austro-German exploring team goes into a secluded valley in the kingdom of Hunza in the Himalayas...
With an adequately offensive diplomatic police, the free nations of the West can destroy the Communist threat, the now arch-democratic former pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne claimed last night...
...Trenches. "Everything I am," says Reder, "I owe to Czernowitz," the Ukrainian city where he was born, the son of a Jewish innkeeper. Czernowitz, now Russian but then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was a town that thrived on folklore and legend, and even the grim periodic pogroms added to the sense of drama. At 17, Reder was drafted into the Austrian army, spent World War I in the trenches as one of the most wretched and incompetent of privates...
...world became Von Wiegand's dateline. He went everywhere, usually twice. War was his private preserve. He spotted the first World War in the making, and in July 1914 he made the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia the subject of a 138-word cable to the United Press, then his employer. His reward was a rebuke for the length of his message. He was on hand shortly after the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and during the battle for Shanghai coolly covered both sides: "I'd go in the morning to the Chinese front and then at noon...
...time last week in the small Jerusalem courtroom, it was Jew v. Jew. Stately Baron Pinhas von Freudiger (his grandfather had been ennobled by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef), who was formerly a prominent Jewish leader in Budapest, took the witness stand. As he emotionally described his dealings with Adolf Eichmann in an effort to save the lives of Hungary's 1,000,000 Jews, a squat, burly man in a golfer's cap leaped to his feet screaming "Hypocrite! You duped us so you could save yourselves and your families! Our families were killed. You have...