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...good one. A prostitute is found brutally stabbed to death in wartime Warsaw; a witness claims to have seen a German general leaving her apartment. Major Grau of the Abwehr narrows the suspects down to three: General von Seydlitz-Gabler, a cautious, ineffectual commanding officer representing the Prussian military tradition; Major General Kahlenberge, his able and acerb chief of staff; and Lieutenant General Tanz, the dashing leader of the Nibelungen (Special Operations) Division. But Major Grau is reassigned, and does not resume his investigation until 1944--two years later--when, with all the generals in Paris a similar murder...
Bayer's foreign emphasis was underlined by the promotion of Kurt Hansen to chairman in 1961. Though his cheeks are scarred like a Prussian's from university dueling matches, Hansen belongs to the rising generation of worldly and multilingual German managers. A chemist who also studied business ad ministration, Hansen feels at ease in New York (where he established Bayer's postwar relations with U.S. companies) or India (where he was called in recently to advise the government on setting up a chemical industry). He works in a Spartan office in Leverkusen, but drives home three miles...
Slated for a continued five-year term as President is Nicolas Grunitzky, 50, the mulatto son of a Prussian doctor and Togolese mother who headed a pro-French puppet regime before Olympio gained independence from Paris in 1960, and who was called upon to take over as Provisional President last January. Ticketed to stay on as Vice President was Antoine Meatchi, 37, a tall, ambitious northern tribesman. To keep the various party factions happy, the election organizers agreed in advance on the makeup of a 56-member National Assembly, divided among virtually all political parties, including Olympio's Comit...
...Henry cannot smother all, not a capable Glendower (Nick Delbanco) or a roaring mad Scots fighter (Robert Rose as Douglas), and absolutely not the visual effect of a production staged with a Prussian precision of technical detail. Indeed, the only serious technical flaw is in the trying matter of accents in an American production: the lead characters ought to agree on a degree of approximation to the Queen's English and on a pronunciation of Bolingbroke. Otherwise, the Loeb has poured its professional competence freely: there is much swordplay, adequately trained; Donald Soule's stolid set suits the play superbly...
...blame for its own decline. Holding themselves aloof from politics, business and the intellectual world, Dieoberen Zehntausend (the Top Ten Thousand), as Bismarck called the elite, devoted their lives either to hunting or to the army; when Hindenburg joined the cadet corps in 1859, 2,000 of 2,900 Prussian officers were of noble birth. However, in its emphasis on a "citizens' army," West Germany's government has even closed off this time-honored avenue for "aristocratic service...