Word: munichs
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...rudest Low blows fell on the men who were conspiring to turn the world red with blood. Even as Chamberlain's umbrella went to Munich, Low's famous "Rendezvous" showed Hitler and Stalin tipping their hats to each other. Low's cartoons so infuriated der Führer that he sent off official protests to London...
...Anton Bustelli. His life story is obscure. It is not even known for sure whether he was German, Italian or Swiss by birth. One of the few firmly established details of biography is the date of his death: April 18, 1763. In observance of the bicentennial of his death, Munich's Bavarian National Museum is displaying a complete collection of his work-102 figurines...
...Cardinal Disapproves. It is to this foreign resistance that the Witnesses are addressing themselves this summer-one of the few summers left, they feel, before Armageddon. In 24 massive rallies, starting June 30 in Milwaukee, they are rolling eastward around the world: New York, London, Stockholm, currently Milan and Munich, then on to Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Singapore and Honolulu, ending in Pasadena in September. In Germany, where the sect numbers 79,000 (compared with 308,000 in the U.S.) and can boast that 12,000 of the faithful served time in Nazi concentration camps, opposition is particularly high...
Weeks before the Munich convention opened, Julius Cardinal Döpfner and Lutheran Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger approved the publication of a broadside called "A Word to All Christians," which attacked Witness beliefs and urged homeowners not to rent rooms to the visitors. When Witness missionaries appeared on Munich streets to hawk the sect's publications, they were flanked by church-affiliated Boy Scouts, who rather unkindly passed out anti-Witness pamphlets...
...Million Members. Much of the hostility was understandable, since the zealous Witnesses quite openly accuse traditional churches of being unBiblical and deride their leaders as servants of Satan. But many Munich residents were appalled by the bitterness of the churches' attack on the Witnesses, and sect workers found no difficulty in finding rooms for assembly visitors. In the end, the convention assembled and housed 110,000 members from all over Northern and Central Europe. Witness President Nathan Knorr announced that the number of Witnesses had in creased 15% in the past year. Witness total worldwide: about...