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Unter den Linden was alive with demonstrators. Snatches of the Internationale seeped into the Wilhelmstrasse chancellery, where Socialist Friedrich Ebert, shaky head of a shaky government, sat wondering if he was another Kerensky doomed to fall before his country's Communists. It was Nov. 9, 1918. Shipwrecked in the field, rudderless at home, Germany was drifting into anarchy...
...Ebert's telephones rang-the private line from the headquarters of the beaten German army at Spa, 360 miles away. With vast relief, Chancellor Ebert heard the voice of Hindenburg's First Quartermaster-General Wilhelm Grb'ner offering an alliance with the Socialists on behalf of the German officer corps...
Died. Otto Lebrecht Meissner, 73 ("Sphinx of the Wilhelmstrasse"), enigmatic Man Friday to three successive heads of the German state after World War I; in Munich. Meissner got an Iron Cross in World War I, in 1923 became Socialist President Ebert's trusted State Secretary, was kept as confidant by Hindenburg, and a behind-the-scenes negotiator between Hindenburg and the up & coming Nazis. He turned up after Hitler's 1933 rise to power as a gaudily uniformed Minister of State for the new Führer. Tried and acquitted as a war criminal after World...
DONLEY H. EBERT Wooster, Ohio...
...designing, staging and direction is the work of Hans Busch, 36, son of famed Conductor Fritz Busch. Hans, who studied stagecraft wherever his father happened to be conducting, e.g., in Dresden and at Britain's Glyndebourne, where he worked under Carl Ebert, is now an associate professor on the Indiana faculty. He also works at outside assignments. This winter he made his bow at the Met with a restyled (but not unanimously praised) Cavalleria Rusticana (TIME...