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...they produced a sort of Communist summit. Seeking to calm the fears of his Communist neighbors that his re forms might go too far and produce another Hungary, Dubcek traveled to Dresden in East Germany to confer with Communist leaders. The meeting was attended by East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who is openly concerned by his neighbor's new course, and by Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka. Hungarian Communist officials also showed up. Finally, as an indication of the meet ing's importance, both Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Party Boss Leo nid Brezhnev arrived in Dresden...
Defying the longtime policy of the Christian Democrats, Brandt called for recognition of the disputed Oder-Neisse line as the legal border between Germany and Poland; he thus became the first German politician to publicly cede the former German territories given to Poland by the victorious Allies in 1945. Brandt also differed with the Christian Democrats on the subject of the nuclear nonproliferation pact, asking for a quick and enthusiastic West German endorsement of the treaty. And, for good measure, he attacked the wait-and-see policy of the Christian Democrats toward the rightist National Democrats. Demanding an immediate constitutional...
Kuhn assembled what some Germanic art authorities have called "the finest collection of twentiethcentury German art in the world," Coolidge said. Kuhn was an opportunist: When Hitler banned "immoral" works by Kirschner and Heckel, Kuhn obtained them when they appeared on the New York market...
Kuhn gave up teaching in 1964 to concentrate on the museum and on writing. His books include Catalogues of German Paintings in American Collections and German Expressionism and Abstract Art. He received the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, for the latter publication...
Kuhn plans to remain in Cambridge and to continue his research on iconography in German Reformation art and on the personification of death...