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...seriousness of purpose and artistic self-effacement were the sum of musical perfection, Ernst Levy would rank among our greatest pianists...
...clergy has fallen down on this business of the Communist Party," said Morris Ernst, lawyer and professional liberal, to officer-students of the Southern Police Institute in Louisville, Ky. By stressing the difference between "guilt and regret," he said, clergymen could encourage many more disillusioned Communists to leave the party. "It is the province of religion to hold before men the symbol ot forgiveness. Lawyers don't have the equipment for it." On parochial schools: "I think Catholic parochial schools are doing a disservice to the Catholics who go to them...I am against Jewish parochial schools. To train...
FRAGEBOGEN (525 pp.) - Ernst von Salomon-Doubleday...
...biggest bestseller in postwar Germany is a well-written but viciously anti-American autobiography of a convicted murderer. The book: Fragebogen (The Questionnaire). The author: Ernst von Salomon, veteran of the roughneck Free Corps, which terrorized Germany after World War I and provided a recruitment pool for the Nazi SA and SS. The book has sold more than 250,000 copies in West Germany (the U.S. equivalent of about 750,000 copies). Published in Britain last April, it shocked reviewers of all political shades. American readers will also be shocked-and probably fascinated...
Passionately Passive. In 1922 Ernst von Salomon was an accomplice in the murder of Germany's moderate Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau and became a hero to Hitler's followers. Von Salomon was sent to prison for five years, thus making his place in the National Socialist Valhalla secure. Yet, after he was released, he managed to stay out of the Nazi Party, while holding down a cushy job in the Nazi propaganda machine. He even managed to live with his Jewish mistress to the very end of World War II. From such a monstrous clever fellow...