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Attempts to initiate talks between East and West Germany have always ended in failure, and there is little reason to believe that the most recent effort will have any atypical success. Responding to an appeal from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's Communist party boss, proposed this week that Kiesinger meet with East German premier Willi Stoph to "negotiate an understanding between the two German states...
What Ulbricht presumably had in mind was a discussion about diplomatic recognition for East Germany, but this was certainly not Kiesinger's intention. Reunification is an unchallengeable goal of West German policy, and post-war governments have always assumed that re-unification will be impossible if East Germany establishes an accepted international identity...
They have insisted, therefore, on treating the East German regime as a pariah and its leaders as outlaws. They still refuse to speak of "the German Democratic Republic," and refer only to "East Germany" or the "Soviet zone." In 1953 the Eastern city of Chemnitz was renamed Karl Marx Stadt, yet this change is still not acknowledged in the West. The West Germans have made use of television broadcasts which can be received in the East to propagandize against the Communist government...
University policemen are not hardened law enforcers. Tonis is one of the few with a background in police work (one man, a retired army colonel, was warden of a prison for German war criminals after the last war). Recruits come largely from within the Harvard community. They include librarians, janitors, and maintenance men, and the primary criterion for their selection is their "ability to get along with people." Tonis interviews as many as 50 applicants for one vacancy. The job is considered a good one and pays relatively well; no one has quit in the last five years...
...major work on the program was Hindemith's Symphony in Bb(1951). This is the ne plus ultra of the band literature. It is music of real symphonic breadth and of imposing technical and interpretive difficulty. The humor in the piece, unusual for the effort of a German composer, was well brought out by the Band...