Word: nster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he ends his talk in any town, as he did last week in Münster, the crowd stands in darkness, and a single light shines down upon Leppich's head. "I was in Bremerhaven recently," he thunders, "where American troops disembarked on to German soil. Do you know what we Germans hold out to these boys as a calling card? Whores...
...landed at Norfolk, Va. in January 1944, Reinhold Pabel, prisoner of war, was a tight-jawed, scarred little bantam with a calculating eye. But he was a pleasant and contemplative sort of fellow too. He had studied for the priesthood as a youth at the University of Münster, spoke English and Russian, was the author of a German book entitled Athos, the Holy Mountain. He gradually concluded that he wanted to live...
...gone. In an army hospital, he taught himself in two weeks to write lefthanded. Disgusted with "the Kaiser's war," he turned to Socialism, read Marx and was impressed, read Lenin and disagreed (particularly with his contempt for democracy), earned his doctorate at the University of Münster. He rejected the Marxist notion of violent class revolution, embraced instead the doctrine of democratic evolution through parliamentary means. ". . . Marxism is no catechism for us," he said. "It is nevertheless the method to which we owe more than any other sociological method in the world." Unlike the ripsnorting old Sozis...
...century after Luther "shook up the whole pattern of European theology." The Quakers were the first of this flowering, and Knox "cannot resist the impression" that there is a direct line of influence upon them from the Anabaptist movement that ended in a bloody civil uprising at Münster 18 years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Early Quaker simplicity strikes Knox as "almost . . . boorishness," and he takes fastidious note of Founder George Fox's "barbarous" style of writing. But he nonetheless pictures Fox as a potent prophet...
...Bonn, the Social Democrat Bundestag members read a resolution calling the Neumünster verdict "a new, heavy blow and disgrace to the German people." In Kiel, the trade unions stopped work for 90 minutes in protest. The Christian Democrat press service warned: "The Weimar Republic collapsed because of [similar] tolerance toward its known enemies." U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy had a stinging comment: "I doubt, that [Hedler] can or will ever be acquitted morally by public opinion...