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...have handled the press photographers as well!" Unfortunately, Truman's interpreter omitted the word "photographers." Next day Austria's press, keener on its dignity than many a pencil-clutching U.S. newsman who used to tangle with Harry, took umbrage. Growled a correspondent for Vienna's Neuer Kurier: "It [was] very unsuitable for Mr. Truman to insult the press of this country while a guest at an official reception...
...matter what Berliners' reactions to individual compositions, the concert as a whole opened their ears to the variety of styles in U.S. composition. Wrote Der Tagesspiegel's Critic Werner Oehlmann: "The American music fascinates." Summed up Kurt Westphal in Der Kurier: "This concert offered us treatments which no one had any idea existed...
...glanced up from my copy of the Kurier, to se the ruins of the Reichstag far to the right. Two more stops to East Berlin. It was about time to get rid of the paper: I had been warned that being seen with a West Berlin newspaper across the border could mean at least a night in jail. So I stuffed the sheets deep under the wooden bench...
Wrote the Berlin Kurier: "To anyone with a feeling for national dignity, it might seem unpleasant to bargain for the Fatherland as for a carpet or a camel in the Orient. But bargaining it must be." Despite such a willing audience, Molotov failed badly in his efforts to appeal to the Germans. The West Germans-even those who thought that by bargaining away EDC they might get a reunited nation-were shocked at Molotov's bland dismissal of free elections as "parliamentary procedure...
...sparrow destroys five to nine pounds of grain annually. Despite all our love for birds, this calls for countermeasures. The German Democratic Republic has therefore issued a police ordinance by which two to ten sparrows are to be destroyed on every hectare of land." In answer, the West Berlin Kurier told its readers: "If a tattered sparrow should peck at your window, let him in. He's a political refugee...