Word: behrendt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amsterdam's ancient, influential, and conservative Algemeen Handelsblad (literally "general commercial newspaper"), the convictions of a stocky displaced German named Fritz Behrendt stick out like battle flags. To hear Behrendt tell it, the whole world is sick, and he is just the doctor it needs. "There are a lot of things wrong with our Western free world," said Behrendt last week, "not the least of which is the God-damned attitude of slow motion, indifference, shortsightedness toward political problems. But that's whooping cough compared with the cancer from the Soviet Union. One can cure whooping cough...
Occasional Damper. In his dedicated effort to excise this international growth, Behrendt is not content with mere angry words. For the last seven years, as the Algemeen Handelsblad's editorial cartoonist, he has thrust repeatedly at world Communism with one of the sharpest and most therapeutic pens in all of Europe. He attacks his favorite target, Khrushchev, with such passion that the paper occasionally feels it necessary to put the damper on Fritz: last week his editors vetoed a Behrendt proposal to draw two Dutchmen convicted in Kiev as spies, beneath a bed occupied by a snoozing Khrushchev. Most...