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Command: President of the West German Republic (currently 70-year-old Theodor Heuss) will presumably be commander-in-chief, delegating authority to a civilian-defense minister (probably Blank). Number of generals: 35 to 40 (there were 1,400 in 1945). If and when German forces come under NATO, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery will supervise their training. In the field they will serve under NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther of the U.S., and his European ground-forces commander, Marshal Alphonse Juin of France. Timetable: If the go-ahead comes soon, the first West German...
Americans and British backed the Ger mans, and in the end, under severe pressure, Paris gave way and allowed Bonn to go through with the amendment. Next day, President Theodor Heuss added his signature, and it was promulgated as the law of the land in West Germany...
...Rector. Presiding over this complicated parish, part church, part museum, part big business, sits red-haired Rector John Heuss, 45. High Churchman Heuss (rhymes with deuce) is well matched with traditionally high-church Trinity, where all 22 clerics on the staff are addressed as Father. His manner is dignified, yet easy; his administrative ability, his clean desk and smooth 15-minute-appointment schedule would do justice to the highest tycoon among his vestrymen. And he is also a sociologist in a parish that needs...
...sociologist, in fact, was what John Heuss planned to be when he was an undergraduate at St. Stephen's (now Bard) College in Annandale-on-Hudson. He decided to learn a bit more about the Christian influence on sociology, and took a six-month leave to study at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The six months stretched to two years, and John Heuss became an Episcopal priest. In 1947 Heuss began to make a national name for himself as first chairman of the Episcopal Church's education program. Five years later, he received the call...
...Father Heuss, born in suburban Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., is painfully aware of how much of parish work lies in trying to undo the damage of the city itself. Says he: "Everything rubs rawer here. We must be healers in the midst of great hurt...