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Says Professor C. J. Van der Horst: "The baboon is functionally so closely related to man that scientists in other parts of the world would regard it as a great forward step . . . if they could experiment on baboons instead of . . . cats, dogs, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits." Science has already given the monkeys stomach ulcers, will soon use them for work on diseases of women and malnutrition...
...music is an infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...
...Beethoven was the greatest of all march composers. Most dangerous: the composer of the Horst Wessel song...
Then everyone sings Deutschland Uber Alles and the Horst Wessel song...
Mourning. At home, German citizens tore the newspapers from the vendors' hands. In the black type they read the unbelievable story: "Fighting at Stalingrad has ceased." With bowed heads they heard it read over the radio, not to the blare of the Nazi Horst Wessel march, but to the strains of the tragic old German folk song: Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (I Had A Comrade). They did not know that some 115,000 officers and men had laid down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats...