Word: heuss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Berlin TV station produced a three-hour documentary series on the country's efforts to stamp out what President Theodore Heuss had called West Germany's "unovercome" Nazi past. Dr. Martens, now a West Berlin surgeon of 71, was shown telling how he almost lost his head. Then came readily identifiable shots of Dr. Klingsiek, now a prosperous Herford physician, driving home in his Mercedes-Benz to what a Frankfurt newspaper later called his "luxurious villa." With out actually naming "this main prosecution witness" against Martens, the commentator said ironically: "As you can see, he is doing...
Reformed Catholic. To succeed the late Father John Heuss, who died in March, the Trinity vestry last month named the Very Rev. John V. Butler, Dean of Manhattan's St. John the Divine Cathedral as their church's new rector. A self-styled "Catholic in the reformed tradition," Butler fits into Trinity's high-church pattern, has a reputation as a pastoral preacher who skillfully uses Biblical passages to illuminate modern themes. Butler would like to see some of Trinity's daughter chapels become selfsupporting, thus providing seed money for new projects in Harlem and other...
...indecent haste hardly calculated to reinforce any moral lessons. Moreover, West Germany has become a youthful nation: over half its population of 58 million were born or grew up after the Nazi era. These new Germans, who had nothing to do with Hitler, will agree with ex-President Theodore Heuss in accepting a "collective shame" for their nation's past, but they refuse, and understandably, to shoulder forever a "collective guilt" for the sins of their fathers...
...meant to be more, even, than a state visit. Officially, it was the formal return of the visit by Germany's late President Theodor Heuss to Buckingham Palace in 1958. The glacial response he got then and the deep-rooted hostility many Britons still harbor toward their wartime enemies delayed the return engagement seven years, until German protocol officials had privately given up hope. Finally, last spring the Conservative government decided to find out whether the past was indeed past, and last fall incoming Prime Minister Harold Wilson concurred. As Chancellor Ludwig Erhard put it, the royal visit...
...Former West German President Theodor Heuss, 79, in Stuttgart's Katharinenhospital, in serious condition after the amputation of his left leg (above the knee) because of gangrene due to a blood clot; California's Democratic Senator Clair Engle, 51, in Washington's Doctor's Hospital after surgery for the removal of "a small amount of brain tissue" which was thought to be the cause of muscle spasms in his right...