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...interpreter with the rank of lieutenant and later as an intelligence officer. They insist that he then strove for four decades to conceal his knowledge. "It cannot suffice to describe Waldheim as a small wheel within wheels who saw nothing, heard nothing and knew nothing," says Hubertus Czernin, a Viennese journalist who has studied Waldheim's record. "He has to be seen in the context of the war of extermination in the Balkans...
...Khrushchev banging a shoe at the U.N. did little to convince the world that Communism had suddenly become couth. Even then, however, Soviet diplomacy had come a long way from the era in which Soviet agents pushed Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk from a window of Prague's Czernin Palace...
...Czernin Vermeer is "The Artist in His Studio," by Delft Painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), considered by many to be his greatest work. Hitler bought it from Count Czernin-Morzin in 1940 for more than $500,000; it now hangs in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum...
Recalling Fogg Museum Mentor Paul Sachs's advice always to put quality first ("Buy the Czernin Vermeer"), Director Cunningham said with justifiable pride: "As far as I'm concerned, they're all Czernin Vermeers*-the Ribera would hang very comfortably in the Prado, and so would the Zurbar...
...Prague, death clothed Jan Masaryk with a renewed dignity. Two weeks before, Prague residents had muttered: "He's no fighter. Must be staying because he likes the job." But while his body lay in state in Czernin Palace, people did not conceal their feelings. Five peasant women leaned over a balustrade in the palace; one of them said loudly: "The damned, damned Communists killed him. They are worse than the Nazis...