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This week these conflicting stands were the main question in parliamentary voting in the U.S.-zone states of Hesse and Württemberg-Baden. The trend was sharply in favor of Schumacher's Socialists. Of 80 seats, Hessians gave 47 to Schumacher's party, only twelve to Adenauer's Christian Democrats. In Württemberg-Baden, the Socialists boosted their seats to 35. In both states, the Communists pulled less than 5% of the vote, will have no parliamentary seats...
...long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...only prominent churchman not on hand was the one man chiefly responsible for bringing the unification about-Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Württemberg. The white-bearded grand old man of German Protestantism, who turned 80 last month, was too ill to attend...
When Hitler came to power, Wurm quickly became an outspoken defender of his church. So strong was his position that in 1934, after he had repeatedly criticized the Nazi regime, he was placed under only a mild house arrest. But the farmers and craftsmen of Württemberg, who knew his firm handshake and his practice of answering his own doorbell, staged an angry demonstration, demanding that Bishop Wurm be released. He was. Although he continued his fight against the Nazis, they never bothered him again...
Arrested also was the pink and plump 71-year-old Pauline, Princess of Württemberg, who sheltered them in their escape and established them in Bebenhausen, part of her former domain. When told that she could go out on bail, the cigar-smoking princess tickled her nurse and rocked with glee. The pair she sheltered will be turned over to U.S. authorities...