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Your excellent reports on France's worse-than-Gestapo activities in Algeria and Tunisia shock the conscience of all freedom-loving people and should convince our congressional leaders to halt the flow of economic and military aid to such an irresponsible and unstable country...
...book is valuable not only for what it says about Communism but for what it says about J. Edgar Hoover, who, he points out himself, has been pictured by the Communists and others as running a kind of Gestapo. Few Americans love a cop (unless he is a badlands sheriff), but this book should make clear that the top federal cop is calm, intelligent, sane, and genuinely concerned that the duties of the FBI never be abused...
Ordet (The Word) is another religious film of the same midnight-sunny Scandinavian sort. Based on a play of the same title by Kaj Munk, the Danish pastor and playwright who was murdered, probably on Gestapo orders, in 1944, the picture does not tell a story so much as it poses an allegory. A village divided by religious faction into "life-affirming" and "death-seeking" sects is intended to signify what is rotten in the state of Denmark's soul, and in the world's as well. Because of this tragic split, the true faith-symbolized...
...with best long-range prospects is brilliant, pro-Western Fritz Erler, 44, a Berlin chemical-firm executive until the Gestapo jailed him in 1939 for underground activity, and now the party's leading expert on defense questions. Erler was in the vanguard of Socialist moderates who led the party out of its postwar "Ohne Mich" (Include Me Out) policy to a more reasonable posture on rearmament, membership in NATO, and Western European cooperation...
...After the Nazis overwhelmed Denmark, Bohr and his wife slipped aboard the fishing boat Sea Star and escaped to Sweden. Eventually he showed up at Los Alamos, the secret New Mexico laboratory where the first atom bombs were taking shape, and where he was known as "Mr. Baker." The Gestapo searched his house in Denmark but found no atomic secrets. He had taken most of them to freedom in a small black bag. They missed his Nobel gold medal too. He had dissolved it in a bottle of acid and put it on a shelf to await reconstitution after...