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...staid Swiss capital of Bern last week, plainclothesmen roamed the hotels, and scores of policemen accompanied by equally alert police dogs stood guard over the picturesque old town hall. Inside the town hall, which had been temporarily transformed into a courtroom, still more police kept a sharp eye on a polyglot crowd composed of some 120 newsmen, dozens of Iron Curtain refugees, and "observers" from Communist Rumania, China and Yugoslavia...
...heart of all this furor were four fanatic young men, the band of anti-Communist Rumanians who in February 1955 electrified the world by seizing Red Rumania's Bern legation and holding it for 42 hours before they surrendered to a small army of Swiss police backed up by tanks (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). Now, 16 months later, the four were on trial before Switzerland's Federal Tribunal, charged with offenses ranging from espionage to the killing of Rumanian Legation Chauffeur Aurel Setu...
Armstrong Circle Theater created some excitement with Five Who Shook the Mighty, a sympathetic rendering of last year's capture of the Red Rumanian legation in Bern. Switzerland, by a band of anti-Communist exiles. Although taking considerable dramatic license with the facts (e.g., the Red charge d'affaires, played by Gregory Morton, is shown as a captive, but actually escaped), the play had far more realism and bite than the usual run of TV's anti-Communist dramas. Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider...
Professor Allegro's discovery of evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls that Christ had a forerunner [Feb. 6] corroborates a lecture on the Gospel of St. Matthew that was given at Bern, Switzerland way back in 1910 by a highly independent German thinker named Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). The question of how Steiner was able to create a theory in clear accord with documentary evidence that was still underground is intriguing...
...other nine are in Logan, Utah; Cardston, Alta., Canada; St. George, Utah; Manti, Utah; Mesa, Ariz.; Honolulu; Salt Lake City; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Bern, Switzerland. † Who told Founder Joseph Smith in Manchester, N.Y. Sept. 21, 1823 about the golden tablets that held the fundamental tenets of Mormonism...