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...Flagstad Case...
TIME'S [April 14] presentation of the Flagstad case is a superb example of unbiased journalism. I might be wrong, but it was my impression that World War II ended two years ago. And didn't we defeat Naziism at that time? Or are we so insecure in our victory that we feel compelled to grab at the flimsy evidence wrapped around one of the . . . greatest Wagnerian sopranos of all time, and persecute...
...called believers in democracy and liberalism say that the fact that Madam Flagstad returned to her quisling husband during the war proves the case against her. It is my contention that true love between husband and wife surpasses all else...
...From impressions gathered solely from the American press, I conclude that Kirsten Flagstad did what any wife would do for any husband: she stood by him in a time of trouble. Alongside this human reaction we have the facts that she did not sing for the Germans or the quislings. Her guilt seems to have been that she lived comfortably while her compatriots did not. That, to our moral ideal, was a sin, but millions committed it during the war who will never be shamed...
...Philadelphia, Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (who spent the war in Nazi-occupied Norway) got an ovation and boos. Outside the Academy of Music, pickets paraded; inside, stink bombs went off, detectives battled hecklers, and a free-for-all flowered in the third row orchestra...