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...FRIEDRICH HARDERS at 42 is chief trustee of Dortmund-Hörder Hutten Union, Germany's largest steel company. He is a single-minded technician. Never a Nazi Party member, he still knows or cares little about politics but has managed to reach the conclusion that exporting to the East is bad "for the moment": "You can't send people iron and steel if there's a danger of their using it against...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Mahler set to music these five poems written by Friedrich Rueckert just after the death of his child. They are eloquently direct-the more so as sung by expressive Contralto Ferrier. Recording: excellent...
According to Friedrich the whole European situation seems far more stabilized that it did a year...
...Friedrich reported that the Europeans are worried that the United States is too convinced of the possibility of Russian belligerency; they feel that our extreme pessimism may even increase the danger of such belligerency...
Despite this sentiment on the continent, Friedrich still advocates continuance of our present program of containment. Asked if there would be a war soon in Europe, he replied "No--not as long as we carry on our present policy. As long as Russia knows she has a tough proposition on her hands, she wont' strike...