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...deed, they are not outstanding in human learning as others are. . . . They live, each in his native land - but as though they were not really at home there. They share in all duties like citizens and suffer all hardships like strangers. Every foreign land is for them a fatherland and every fatherland a foreign land. . . . They dwell on earth, but they are citizens of heaven...
...rhythms for his symphonies and concertos, and on Ravel and Stravinsky, among others, for his handling of them. The three living composers he admires most are Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. (Russian expatriate Stravinsky, now a U.S. citizen, has been denounced by Culture and Life as "a man without a fatherland...
Said Sofia's Government-controlled Fatherland Front: "The new democratic Greek government which will be the center of the Free Greek State . . . presents the only correct and sensible solution of the Greek question." Said Izgrev: "Political circles comment on the meaning attached to last week's departure [from Athens] of the Yugoslav charge and the Soviet Ambassador. It is known that both left without requesting return visas. It is believed that perhaps the Slav countries will recall their diplomatic missions from Athens and will recognize a 'free Greece...
Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstängl, Hitler's onetime pianist-in-waiting, who spent most of the war in Allied hands, was back in Germany and suing the fatherland for damages. He had fled for his life in 1937, he told the Bavarian State Commission for Persecutees, and he wanted $16,150 compensation...
Novelist Hesse himself wrote from the Olympian vantage point of Switzerland, where he took refuge from the Fatherland in 1912 and where he still lives, now aged 70. He has half a hundred books to his credit and a considerable popularity on the Continent, at least among oldsters...