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Ever since a young nobleman named Gustav Vasa fought his way to the throne in the 16th century and broke with Rome, Sweden has been overwhelmingly Lutheran. For most of that time it has had a Lutheran state church with the kind of brassbound temporal authority that Protestants are often pointing fingers at the Roman Catholics for. The king of Sweden and all his ministers had te be members of the Church of Sweden,* all citizens had to pay taxes for its support, and no one could leave it officially except to join another Christian church. Roman Catholics were forbidden...
...allied armies raced toward Berlin in the spring of 1945, control of German territory was not the only big prize. Quietly but fiercely they competed with each other for the leaders of German science. One of those who disappeared into the silence of Soviet hospitality was Nobel Prizewinner Physicist Gustav Hertz. A few years later his colleagues heard that he had died in Russia...
...bogeymen. Edward Crankshaw's Cracks in the Kremlin Wall expressed one expert's judgment that Russia is feebler than supposed. Other careful books exposed Communism in practice. Margarete Buber (Under Two Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then as. now, Russia's rulers had a bent for despotism...
...played professional baseball) and threatened to sue the A.A.U. It was bad enough, he said, for the Olympic Committee to take back the medals he had won, "but I do hold that the officials had no right to take back the bronze bust of himself that King Gustav V of Sweden gave me or the jewel-studded silver Viking ship the Czar of Russia asked me to accept. They belong to me and must be returned or I will bring a suit for damages...
...portraits, the photographers can catch as much as the easel men do nowadays, and Steichen groups four of them together in a single panel to show the camera's range: Sweden's Gustav V ("the simple dignity of a democratic king"), Jersey City's Hague ("the arrogant power of a mayor"), Britain's Attlee ("the bewilderment of a politician"), and U.S. Technologist Vannevar Bush ("the serenity of a distinguished scientist...