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...Fourth Power. Impetus for Adenauer's arguments is provided by aggressive Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who demands that NATO become a ''fourth atomic power''; this obviously would make West Germany an atomic power as well, for despite NATO's control over them, nuclear warheads would be in the hands of the Bundeswehr. Most of the American nuclear weapons on the Continent are already on West German soil but under strict U.S. control...
Bonn officials pooh-poohed the whole affair as an obvious effort to divide the West, and Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss declared that West Germany would "under no circumstances" change its policy. But the West German press and public clearly got a big charge out of all the unexpected attention. MOSCOW WOOING BONN AGAIN, boasted the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; headlined another paper: MOSCOW CONTINUES SOFT WAVE...
...scandal broke last fall when Pre mier Josef Cyrankiewicz, Politburo Member Edward Ochab and other top functionaries suddenly got a rash of Rabelaisian letters that mingled demands for greater intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club...
...predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had refused a similar invitation in 1957.) At the same time, a group of 29 Western newsmen who had toured Hungary for five days were greeted effusively by Deputy Premier Gyula Kallai, who hinted, over apricot brandy and pastry, that the Hungarian government might permit Josef Cardinal Mindszenty to leave his sanctuary in the U.S. legation, where he took refuge in November 1956, if the U.S. is prepared to consider "betterment of relations between the two governments...
...which, as a gesture of gratitude to the public he "loves like a woman," he plans to unpack the most cherished contents of his "musical valise." The series will do more than demonstrate the impeccable artistry of the world's most legendary virtuoso. Like the late great Josef Hofmann's remarkable series of concerts in Petrograd, Russia, in 1913, it will, by comparison, illuminate the defects and virtues of the men who stand with Rubinstein as the greatest living players of the piano. The list is not long; it includes only three more: Rudolf Serkin, Vladimir Horowitz...