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...perhaps know, McCarthy and his assistants, Cohn and Schine, are generally considered to have considerably damaged our U.S. information program. In Vienna, they succeeded in removing books and records from our Amerika-Haus. In Munich they had several senior people removed from the Consulate General and the Amerika-Haus. Consequently, although I feel it perfectly fair to criticize USIA for weak sports, presumed or actual, I do not think you are justified in using McCarthy's favorite device, guilt by association...
...enough to counteract the sub-rational and even sub-human forces of the modern world. There is something depressing in reading the record of Welles' career: highly praised but abortive plans for peace conferences in 1939, polite missions to the Axis leaders, "lucid and well-informed" reports on the Munich crisis. It is a kind of tragic record of the death throes of personal diplomacy. A man of wit, fore-night, honor, and good-will was totally incapable of deflecting a catastrophic course of events. Leadership that would have resulted in a "peace with honor" in the days of Talleyrand...
Hurtling his Cadillac down a serpentine road outside Munich, heavy-footed Cinemactor Horst Buchholz, 27, unwillingly dubbed "the Teutonic James Dean," careened out of control and wrapped the white convertible around a tree. Thrown free and found crawling with one hand to his stomach, the blood-smeared star of Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (which was just 2½ shooting days from completion) was carted to Munich University Clinic, where emergency surgery repaired serious abdominal injuries. Next morning, relieved to hear that his promising property would be back before the cameras by mid-October and with nary...
...becomes the Germans to wail about an impending "second Munich" now. I don't recall their protesting the first...
...Munich's other resurrection, Strauss's Der Friedenstag, also suffered from a weak book-as did all of Strauss's operas after the death of Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss had wanted Novelist Stefan Zweig as his librettist, but he was advised-i.e., ordered-by the Nazis to find a text writer of pure Aryan stock. His choice was Library Director Joseph Gregor, whose first draft was so hopeless ("Your dialogue between the two commanders is all wrong," wrote Strauss furiously; "it reads like two school teachers") that Zweig secretly rewrote the whole thing. Acclaiming...