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When Kurt Gruber landed in a Soviet prison camp at the age of 18, he was pro-Nazi and anti-Russian. Now 29 and studying for a Ph.D. at Bonn, Kurt is still anti-Russian, but the peacetime years have made him violently anti-Nazi. In fact, despite the imminence of German re-armament, he is violently opposed to militarism of any kind...
...Kurt Gruber is not alone among West Germans in his hatred for "the army." Youth, and many of their elders too, are trying to put a new face on old Germany-to rebuild it as a champion of peace and democracy in the free world, without arms. Unfortunately, this potentially powerful movement lacks organization and spokesmen even among the Socialists...
...harness this energy for power? Austria could use it in its reconstruction, and the surplus could be sold to northern Italy's heavy industries. There was just one problem: Where would Austria get the money to build a hydroelectric plant? Last week Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. Karl Gruber went to the place that could help supply the funds. He marched into the office of Eugene R. Black, president of the World Bank, and asked for $12 million to help finance the $35 million hydroelectric power plant. The chances for the loan, Black told him, looked excellent. So were...
...Jacob Gruber, a New York lawyer representing a client under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, persuaded a switchboard operator in an SEC office to plug him in on calls to another SEC office. Sentence: a year and a day in prison, $1,000 fine. The operator drew a suspended sentence...
...Gruber's disclosures were greeted with Socialist cheers, but he seemed surprised and hurt when his own party summoned him on the carpet. "I had by no means the intention," he recanted, "of accusing political persons of the People's Party . . . of uncertain or unpatriotic attitudes." But it was too late. The party made Gruber resign the Foreign Ministry, which he has held since war's end. His probable successor: former Chancellor Figl, Austria's most beloved politician...