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After a tour of duty in Washington in what seemed an innocuous job, Poland's Colonel Pawel Monat returned to Warsaw in May of last year. In the half-world of intrigue, he was a man to reckon with. His next official job was to coordinate the work of all military attaches in Polish embassies throughout the world, which, in a Communist country, meant that Monat had access to political as well as military intelligence and espionage, and presumably knew all there was to be known. Hard-working and trusted, Monat apparently had no trouble last summer getting permission...
KURT LINDE, a major general in the German army during World War II and executive director of the German Veterans' Association, writing in the monthly magazine Der Monat...
Nevertheless, more than 3,500 copies a month are smuggled into East Germany. One German couple, sent to a Red prison after the Communists discovered copies of the magazine in their East zone apartment, made straight for Der Monat's office to replenish their confiscated copies after they escaped...
Ford Grant. Der Monat owes its prestige to the State Department's wise decision to give virtually a free hand to its New York-born editor, Melvin J. Lasky, 34. By filling the magazine with the work of the world's leading writers, he has convinced German readers that Der Monat is much more than a mere mouthpiece of U.S. policy. Last week Editor Lasky took the final step to establish the magazine's independence. He severed its official U.S. ties completely, and got a $175,000 Ford Foundation grant to continue publishing, hopes to make...
...Monat establishes the link by printing articles by such writers as T. S. Eliot. Bertrand Russell, Joseph Schumpeter, Benedetto Croce, Arthur Koestler, Sidney Hook, Aldous Huxley and Reinhold Niebuhr. Articles, all translated into German, cover every subject, from the relationship between Christianity and Western civilization to the real place of Wall Street in the U.S. economy. 'George Orwell's biting anti-Communist satires, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, were translated into German only in the pages of Der Monat...