Word: rapallo
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...Germans would accept such a scheme, which is far closer to the old spirit of Rapallo than to the New Nationalism. But the Berlin stalemate tends to stifle West Germany's spirit, restricts its activities in other fields; the resulting irritation forces many to the conclusion that something must be done, though no one knows quite what. The fact that the West Germans are even considering "direct" talks with Russia reflects a significant psychological shift. It will require some getting used to by West Germany's allies, but it is not necessarily dangerous to Western unity. As TIME...
Echo from the Past? Coupled with the compliments for West Germany were dazzling hints of trade treasures ahead; an "ocean-size market is waiting . . . but only a tiny part of existing possibilities is being used." Getting to the point last week. Radio Moscow spoke of "the spirit of Rapallo,"* and in a major switch, Pravda assured Bonn that none of this meant West Germany must become a "neutral" and leave NATO; relations could be "normalized" without breaking up existing blocs. In fact, it was hinted that Russia might drop the idea of a separate peace treaty with East Germany...
...they like, could remain in the white zone-but without voting or civil rights. I think they would make out well just the same." On hand to introduce Sir Oswald at the neo-fascist rally was Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound, 75, who interrupted his own dreamworld sojourn in Rapallo to revisit the scene of his wartime, anti-U.S. radio broadsides...
After Yeats. "Old Ez," as he calls himself, has spent so many years in voluntary exile-London, Paris, Rapallo-that it is easy to forget him as an American. His ancestors came over on the same boat as Roger Williams. Two hundred of them fought in the Revolutionary War, and the towns of Weston in Massachusetts and Connecticut are named after them. Ezra was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885, grew up in Wyncote, Pa., attended Hamilton College, and got an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He had sound taste even then. At 18, he told his friend William...
Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. A fond, endearing portrait of Sir Max Beerbohm, whom the author met in Rapallo during the sixth decade of that sempiternal Edwardian's self-declared...