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...various staffs, however, Martin may often have appeared more like a Prussian general. As Ambassador to Thailand and later to Rome, he worked prodigious hours and expected his staff to do the same. He had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night, struck by a thought or insight, and drafting a cable by his bedside or calling up one of his assistants to discuss the matter. "He even dreams diplomacy and power plays," says one associate. For relaxation, he once tried golf but shortly gave it up; he tried swimming and dropped that...
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Montezuma. An opera by Karl Heinrich Graun, an eighteenth-century Prussian, in its American premiere. The anti-imperialist libretto is by Frederick the Great. Tomorrow...
...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
ELIOT HOUSE LIBRARY. Consequences of the Franco-Prussian War, a woodwind quintet, 8 p.m., Dec. 1. Baroque Recital, flute, harpsichord and gamba...
Barzel deserves his reputation as a tough and skillful political infighter. The son of a Prussian schoolmaster, the Christian Democratic leader was elected to the Bundestag in 1957 after a short but highly successful career as a civil servant. He quickly became known as the German counterpart of the U.S.'s Communist-hunting Senator Joe McCarthy, reportedly under the influence of his later political partner, Franz Josef Strauss. Barzel founded an anti-Communist organization called "Save Freedom," whose primary activity was a "red book" that accused 453 West German intellectuals and artists of Communist ties. He also asserted that...