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...Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...
...Publisher William Charles Empey (Will's son), decided to keep going. Each day through World War II, the Guide appeared as usual-but the back page, where ship movements were formerly listed, was blank. Empey and his staff continued to gather up the forbidden news of ships that touched at San Francisco each day. Then the list was set, one page proof was pulled, and locked in the office safe...
...British occupation authorities were still struggling to find German industrial, business and professional leaders for zonal posts. Before Potsdam, the Americans had set up local regimes and a Bavarian provincial administration. The emphasis was on "denazification." Political parties, trade unions, and political meetings (which the Russians encouraged) were forbidden. Now that has been changed. And last week General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the press: Germans in towns and rural areas will elect local officials of their own choosing before winter. In the British zone, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said: "We aim at the restoration of local self-government...
...usually got it, did not at first share his son's devotion to Gandhi and the doctrine of non-violent resistance. But on April 13, 1919, following a series of disturbances in the Punjab, British Brigadier General R. E. H. Dyer threw a detachment of soldiers around a forbidden public meeting in an enclosed square, and ordered his men to fire until their ammunition was exhausted. Result: 379 Indians killed. 1,200 wounded. That massacre (at Jalliamvala Bagh) changed Father's mind...
Margie Hart, red-haired stripteaser, was too hot for the U.S.O. to handle. "The Poor Man's Garbo," who had once been forbidden by New York University to lecture on farming, told Stars & Stripes that the U.S.O. not only wanted none of her wiggle-waggling for troops overseas, but declined her strictly subdued offer to wrap herself up in a Mother Hubbard and give poetry recitations...