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...Likes Sacherforte? Many Austrians are also all too bitterly aware of the decline in their country's grandeur. The only time that the coalition has been seriously divided was in a dispute over a memory: two years ago, the Socialists voted to keep Otto Habsburg, Franz Josef's heir, out of the country, though he has renounced his claim to the throne...
...Gaulle has even managed to estrange his most ardent followers in West Germany, including such a strong German "Gaullist" as Bavarian Boss Franz Josef Strauss. Fortnight ago, De Gaulle with great fanfare entertained Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the end of the visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...
...originally banned by the Allies, and were left out of the national hymn after the occupation. He has also emphasized that his party opposed reparations and aid for Israel, as well as extending the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes. Though an opponent of former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, Mende, like Strauss, justifies his opposition to the extension of the statute by referring to crimes committed against Germans by Eastern Europeans and the Soviets in 1945. "We don't want to balance these things out, but . . ." he begins...
...Among the best known: Isamu Noguchi, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Gaston Lachaise, Louis Bouché, Naum Gabo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and William Zorach. Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint the main fresco for the RCA Building's lobby, had his mural removed in 1933 when he inserted the face of Lenin...
...Ludwig Erhard to reckon with because he heads the 50 delegates of the Christian Social Union, the C.D.U.'s affiliate in Bavaria. Nonetheless, as Strauss was re-elected C.S.U. leader in Munich last week amid the redolence of wurst, beer and cigar smoke, it was clear that Franz Josef was as imperial - and imperious - as ever, and a far less palatable Bavarian export than Löwenbr...