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...Assertiveness. Next day, concerned over an unfavorable European reaction to the truculent tone of the communiqué, Adenauer's Press Chief Felix von Eckardt summoned 125 correspondents and retreated a bit: "The federal government believes that any effective defense of Europe can only take place with the cooperation of France...
Among the principal members of the Adenauer party will be Walter Hallstein, Vollrath Freiherr von Maltzan, Heinz L. Krekeler, Heinz Heinrich von Herwarth, Feliz von Eckardt, Alexander Boker, and John F. Simmons, State Department chief of Protocol...
IVAN THE TERRIBLE (421 pp.]-Hans von Eckardt-Knopf...
...This epoch is of quite exceptional interest to the historians of the Soviet Union," notes Biographer Eckardt, who is a professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg. Like the Soviet historians, Eckardt goes over Ivan's matted reign with a fine-tooth comb; unlike them, he refrains from minimizing the diabolical cruelties of a despot who made even such a hard-faced operator as Cesare Borgia look like a cherubic innocent. Nonetheless, Eckardt does his best to follow the rule he paraphrases from Philosopher Benedetto Croce: "Not to insist upon a description of horrors in history...
Objective Best. The result is a painstaking, broad-viewed and valuable study of a vital period in Russian development, throughout which Historian Eckardt does his objective best to separate Ivan into two Ivans: 1) the Personal Sadist, 2) the Unifier, born out of his time, caught in the inexorable process of history. Though the method doubtless deserves respect, its limitations are never so clear as in a book on Ivan...