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...Crostic), a lawyer's avidity for meticulous briefing, and relentless persistence. Elected president of Lutheran World Relief after World War II, he ranged Europe on a mammoth repair job that was just as much spiritual as material. "It wasn't just a question of relief," he explains. "Danish and Norwegian Lutherans hated German Lutherans; they felt contempt for Swedish Lutherans. No one would talk to anyone else. At first we got nowhere. But at the 1947 convention of the Lutheran World Federation we surrounded every anti with several pros so he would have to talk to them...
...Like Albert Schweitzer, Morel has become a symbol for those discontented with the quality of modern existence. His allies, in the nature of things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists of a refugee girl, victim of multiple rape in the liberation of Berlin, a Danish naturalist, a U.S. magazine photographer, and a nuclear scientist who has just refused to go on helping to make the basalt bomb. Each in his own way understands something of Morel's strange passion...
...Cinemacaroon Brigitte (And God Created Woman) Bardot, who won a 1957 Victoire (France's Oscar), proved the infinite ingenuity of the French in inventing new human relationships. She offered to be the godmother of a baby girl born to her ex-husband, Director Roger Vadim, and a Danish model one day after he and Brigitte were divorced...
Ordet (The Word) is another religious film of the same midnight-sunny Scandinavian sort. Based on a play of the same title by Kaj Munk, the Danish pastor and playwright who was murdered, probably on Gestapo orders, in 1944, the picture does not tell a story so much as it poses an allegory. A village divided by religious faction into "life-affirming" and "death-seeking" sects is intended to signify what is rotten in the state of Denmark's soul, and in the world's as well. Because of this tragic split, the true faith-symbolized...
...hour of the NATO summit conference approached, the statesmen and diplomats of the West scurried about like ants. Danish Premier Hans Christian Hansen flew into Bonn. German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano conferred in Rome before flying to Washington, hot on the heels of French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. In London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was loading his briefcase for a quick trip to Paris...