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King Leopold III of the Belgians, since 1940 a Nazi prisoner, was reported reunited with his children in Bavaria. From neutral sources came a picture of the royal offspring, taken while they were still happily grouped on the grounds of the Palace of Laeken in Brussels (Josephine Charlotte, 16; Albert, 10; Alexandre Emmanuel, 2-Leopold's only child by his second wife, Marie; Crown Prince Baudouin...
...southern regions, including predominantly Catholic Baden, Wurttemberg, Bavaria...
Reported Dead. Adolf Wagner, 54, former Gauleiter of Bavaria, longtime crony and "other voice" of Adolf Hitler; in Munich. One-legged Wagner marched in the 1923 beer-hall Putsch, at Nürnberg party congresses delivered Hitler's proclamations in the blustering manner of his chief...
...masters." There were some 38 paintings, all from the collection of Warner S. McCall, retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Some of McCall's paintings bore such signatures as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Thomas Gainsborough. But certain Memphis newsmen were not impressed. They called on fastidious Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Valentiner's thudding opinion: the City of Memphis had been...
South Germany might be unable to survive on its own. Union with Austria might become a necessity. Russia might well oppose a union of Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria, prefer to draw Austria into a bloc with Czechoslovakia and Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...