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...China had been exporting the finished product to Europe for two centuries before an alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger, a protege of Augustus the Strong of Saxony, succeeded in cracking the secret of porcelain making in 1709. His success made it possible for Augustus, an avid collector of the Chinese article, to manufacture...
...Died. Friedrich Bergius, 64, German-born scientist who won the 1931 Nobel Prize for chemistry (for converting coal into gasoline), an expert on ersatz foodstuffs which were later used by the Nazi war machine (he succeeded in making sugar out of sawdust); of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...vast majority of U.S. gallerygoers had never seen such a collection before and never would again. They had been making the most of the world art masterpieces which once hung in Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
...close of the Toledo exhibition next week the collection will start on its road back. The Department of the Army will ticket it for Wiesbaden, in the U.S. zone, but it will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...
...Carl Friedrich, professor of Government followed Mason's address with a talk on the situation in Germany. The problem in Germany is not nationalism, he claimed, but to channel nationalistic sentiments along reconstructive lines. "Under the present set-up, international authority is not endangered by the Germans, but by the French," Friedrich stated. "If certain negative possibilities materialize, France with a hostile government can do a lot of damage...