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...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Arias from Norma, Faust, Pagliacci, Die Meister singer. Soloists: Camilla Williams, Lawrence Tibbett...
...that glitters is not gold, unfortunately, and as a pundit Hugues has been known to give himself over to such dogmatizing that myriad grains of salt are required for most of us to digest his writings. Famed Concert Meister Eddie Condon was once so unkind as to remark to the effect that, "We aren't giving him lessons on how to squash grapes; where does he get off trying to tell us how to play hot music...
...appeal to the uprooted came from Berlin's Russian-appointed Oberbürger-meister Arthur Werner: "You have been living through only a small part of that which Russians, Poles, Czechs and other people . . . have had to suffer during the years under Hitler. But it would be of little use to anyone to accept our suffering as penance for the ill Germany has caused others. . . . The utmost efforts are being made . . . but you must help. . . . Help us to build a new Germany where freedom and democracy will reign...
Trials went on of men suspected of a hand in the July attempt on Hitler's life. Dr. Carl Goerdeler, onetime Oberbürger-meister of Leipzig, and said to be the ringleader, was hanged with six others. One of them was Adam von Trott zu Solz, a Foreign Office man who had spent the summer trying to make Allied contacts in Stockholm. Trott had a plan for overthrowing Hitler, but he wanted assurance that Germans would be rewarded with something better than unconditional surrender. The Nazis talked of trying (and hanging) Hjalmar Schacht, passed sentence of death...
Promptly the Gestapo clapped a price of 1,000,000 marks on the head of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving...