Word: rhenish
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...Allies of 1945 divided the country into an Eastern zone and a Western. The culture of each was built and nurtured on religious traditions. The smaller of the Germanys, in the Rhineland and Bavaria, was and is largely Roman Catholic and bourgeois, the Germany of Munich, the old Rhenish bishoprics and the industrial Ruhr. This is the Germany of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. It thinks back, with some nostalgia, to the European and Catholic unity of the Holy Roman Empire. Catholic voters, a decisive force through history's accidents in the new Federal German Republic, have long...
...life; stuffed birds and animals from its zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...
Boring from Within. Marx got his start in life as editor of the Rhenish Gazette. This newspaper had been founded by a group of solid businessmen turned publishers. Like other publishers since, they were presently bewildered to discover that their paper had been infiltrated by socialists and was being used as a mouthpiece for revolutionary ideas. Marx lost his job. Then began his lifelong career as an expatriate and professional revolutionist...
With the first gunshots, Marx rushed back to the Rhineland to edit the New Rhenish Gazette. The chapter on this episode shows the extent to which Marx's tactics are still standard Communist equipment. The New Rhenish Gazette was a tight little dictatorship of the proletariat run by a back-room clique of case-hardened Communists. But communism or socialism were rarely mentioned in its columns ; the paper posed as a liberal organ. The Communists posed as liberal patriots. In the name of liberalism, Marx shouted for war between Prussia and Denmark. He knew that war is good growing...
...with disturbing frequency. Suddenly the broadcast was interrupted by excited voices, a scuffle in the outer room, shouts and shots. The hated Allies were seizing the transmitter! "Put on the record, the RECORD!", a German voice shouted. And as Annie began, so she died, with the reedy, recorded Rhenish tune...