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...leaders who actually stood trial, eleven were sentenced to hang, seven received prison sentences, three were acquitted. Condemned to death, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring committed suicide by poison in his prison cell. Ten Nazis-including Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Armed Forces Chief Wilhelm Keitel, and General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief military adviser-died on the gallows...
Director Thomas Babe has chosen to do the William Arrowsmith translation in modern dress, with Pentheus of Thebes looking something like a teenage Marshal Ky, and the god Dionysus a blond-haired cigarette-smoking James Dean. The first resemblance is most pointed; Babe interprets the autocratic, highly organized government of Thebes as a garrison--perhaps fascist--state, threatened by the earthly, irrational Dionysiac cult. The interpretation works in that Babe's production is exciting theatre, and in the end faithful to the original as well. Just the same there are points worth questioning...
First stop last week was Cairo, where she spent two days reviewing the world's horizons with Jawaharlal's old neutralist crony Gamal Abdel Nasser. Next she will fly to the Adriatic isle of Brioni and two days of talks with another old non-aligned family friend, Marshal Tito. This week a special Aeroflot airliner will whisk her from Brioni to Moscow...
...Kiev and Volgograd-formerly Stalingrad-the pace was as swift, the Russian phrases as fluent, and the overtones of history as frequent as they had been throughout the tour. Standing with Soviet Artillery Boss Marshal Nikolai Voronov on Mamaev Hill, where the Russians turned the tide at Stalingrad, De Gaulle peered through thick spectacles at the map of the battlefield. "Ask Voronov how he organized his artillery," De Gaulle asked the interpreter. After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist." Still he refused to lay a wreath at the Stalingrad memorial. That recalled his comment...
...Africa and later as a German P.W., was so mightily impressed by the style and tactics of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps that in 1950 he wrote a bestselling biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, which stirred a whirlwind of controversy over its profuse praise for the German field marshal; of a heart attack; on the British Channel island of Sark...