Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fortnight he was in Innsbruck, Austria, lecturing to students on writing. A few days later he was in Munich, followed by a train of young people. A few days after that, he was in Switzerland. Wherever he went, he talked-in English, French or German-bouncing in & out of chairs, filling his young audience's ears with an endless stream of neat, witty, slightly pedantic but somehow most exciting talk...
...Hellabrunn Zoo, in Munich, Germany, a small herd of short-maned, pony-sized horses grazed contentedly last week. Fine-boned and broad-skulled, with mouse-grey coats and zebra-striped legs, they look for all the world like tarpans, the fierce wild horses that Roman legionnaires found in Spain. But tarpans are extinct: the last herds vanished in the 19th century, after ranging eastward to the steppes of the Ukraine...
...Radio Munich's fantastic contention that eighty-five percent of the German Foreign Service are ex-Nazis should remind some of us, in the light of the facts since then revealed by an impartial parliamentary investigation, of similar statements made questioning the political reliability of Foreign Service elsewhere. Thus, when Mr. Schoenberg cites a radio-commentator to support his most serious charges, why not quote some of the facts published by the investigation Committee of the Bundestag, why not mention that a good many Foreign Service employees, who had been found to be Nazis, have since been dismissed...
With the general German sentiment against national, or even party guilt, even the Bonn government is falling into line with the nationalists. All parties in the recent elections stressed their own hyper-nationalist policies, and last spring the Munich radio revealed that 85 percent of the Bonn Foreign Office were undisputed ex-Nazis a higher percentage of party men than served under Hitler...
...refugee from Communist Poland recently reached Munich. He was a Roman Catholic priest, 30-odd years old, and he had come to tell West and East, via Radio Free Europe, about the struggle of his church for survival. In Poland, a strongly Catholic country, the Communists have not dared to outlaw religion, but they hope to suffocate it by continual restrictions. The priest's story...