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Martin knows-and so does his best friend Heinrich, whose father was also killed on the Eastern front. It meant that Father was replaced by an "uncle." Sometimes the uncles are nice, like Martin's Uncle Albert, who shares the same house as Martin's mother, but not her bed. Sometimes they are crabbed and cruel, like Heinrich's Uncle Leo, the last of a long succession of uncles who moved in with his mother, stayed a while, and moved...
Cued Films. To Martin and Heinrich, small boys in a Rhineland city, the war is like a persistent, annoying noise heard from a distance. The war means the NAZIS-whom Uncle Albert called terrible, but who are described by their schoolteachers as NOT so BAD. It means the rubble of the city that was being swiftly replaced by angular, modern buildings. Martin and Heinrich would just as soon forget the war, and so would their elders, bowed by a dead weight of memory and guilt. Martin's mother Nella, a blonde beauty who looks "exactly like the women pictured...
Typo Trick. This fourth U.S.-published novel by Heinrich Boll (Adam, Where Art Thou? The Train Was on Time), best of Germany's postwar novelists, needs all his skill to emerge convincingly from a clumsy translation. A typographical trick of frequently capitalizing phrases and sentences, sometimes to convey the thoughts of children, sometimes for no discernible reason...
Diplomatic Opportunity. In West Germany, where recovery of the "eastern territories" is supposedly still a hot emotional issue, Tito's statement could not be ignored in the last week of an election campaign. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano blustered darkly of taking action against Yugoslavia (nature undisclosed). The point of Tito's toast is that West Germany has never abandoned its claims to the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, which were given to Poland at the end of World War II to compensate Poland for the slice of its eastern lands (68,667 sq. mi.) grabbed...
Died. Dr. Otto Ernst Heinrich Hermann Suhr, 63, Socialist lord mayor of West Berlin, doughty foe of Communism, Social Democratic delegate to the Bonn parliament and President-elect of the Bundesrat, the Parliament's Upper House, sometime (before Hitler and since 1948) professor of political science, onetime (1922-33) secretary of the German Trade Union Association; of leukemia; in Berlin...