Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives a vivid picture of the discord it caused among his upper-crust friends. When Chamberlain announced that he was making a second trip to Munich, he noted, "Raymond [Mortimer] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this ghastly?' Eddy [Sackville-West] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this hell?' Margot Oxford rings me up and says, 'Now, Harold, you must agree he is a great...
...Wallis Simpson, for example; he looked on her as an American social climber, though he faithfully recorded each of the many times he met her at parties. Like many Englishmen of his generation and class, he was troubled almost as deeply about the abdication as he was about Munich. "What is so tragic," he confided in a letter to Vita, "is that now the people have got over the first sentimental shock, they want the King to abdicate. Opinion in the house is now almost wholly anti-King...
...symbolism and reality do not always coincide. Although the new bridge shortens the autobahn between Munich and West Berlin by 21 miles, it provides no link whatsoever between East and West Germany: the autobahn runs through a sealed corridor from which motorists cannot stray. Its inauguration, moreover, had to be accomplished without ceremony because the two governments refused to meet each other to open it. Bridge or no bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow...
...wholly new dimension that this humanistic revelation gave religious art can be seen superbly in the treasures of Munich's Alte Pinakothek, one of the world's oldest royal repositories of art. A testimony to the taste of the Wittelsbachs, who passionately collected more than 80,000 works of art, the 130-year-old Pinakothek's bounty of art works, including many paintings invisible to the public for decades, has been restored today to the luster that first seduced kings (see color pages...
...Gisela Bolte, our German economics specialist, and Stringer Burton Pines, who is working for a doctorate in modern German history. European Economic Correspondent Robert Ball, stationed in Zurich, came to Bonn for the story; Ball is an old German hand who had put in an eleven-year stint in Munich and Berlin...