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When he was 26, Richard Wagner, with his wife Minna and his dog Robber, boarded a small (100-ton) Prussian-owned vessel and set sail from Pillau for London. The stormy passage that followed took more than three weeks instead of the customary eight days, and the superstitious crew angrily blamed Wagner and his wife for their bad luck. From the experience of that voyage Wagner conceived his opera The Flying Dutchman, which was never popular in Wagner's own lifetime, has met with varying luck ever since. Last week, after an absence of nine years, it appeared...
...memoirs (now compulsory reading in all alert chancelleries), De Gaulle described his postwar German policy-"end of the centralized Reich, autonomy for the left bank of the Rhine," and some kind of loose federal regime, which, he said, was the only way that "the Russians might allow the Prussian and Saxon territories to remain branches of the main trunk...
...Captain From Koepenick is a full color re-make of a mid-30's film about the Prussian military at the turn of the century. The story involves an ex-convict, who, becoming piqued with the government, buys an old infantry uniform, commandeers a dozen healthy, helmeted Berlin youths, marches them to the neighboring town of Koepenick, and ends up arresting the mayor and sending him to jail. The film, as it might appear, is primarily a comedy, and the last fifteen minutes are delightful in a Teutonic, beer and wursty manner...
...against the Bolsheviks at Archangel, served briefly (1939-40) as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; of a heart attack; in London. Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young spy was awarded the German Military Service Medal...
Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...