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...join what the Queen herself called "the Royal Mob" of princelings clustering about Victoria's opulent patronage. They were an oddly innocent lot of hobbledehoys, but dedicated to their business-jobs and titles, endless meals and dressing up, places to live and places to die. Papa ("Der schöne Uhlan," the Mob called him) got himself appointed Honorary Colonel of the Post Office Volunteers. He dutifully went under canvas with his pugnacious battalion, but he was pretty much of a failure, declined into rose pruning, and died after a sad "softening of the brain...
...arms. This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded by a top-notch cast (including Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn, Tenor Hans Hopf, Baritone Paul SchÖffler, Bass Oskar Czerwenka), the album provides opera buffs with a rare look at a gifted but remote composer...
...week's end Adenauer was putting the finishing touches on his new lineup. Now listed for Schäffer's place as Vice Chancellor was Ludwig Erhard, who would not only keep his post as Economics Minister, but also take over the, chairmanship of the Cabinet's Economic Committee. Erhard, as engineer of Germany's postwar prosperity, was clearly being rewarded for providing Adenauer with his best election issue. The coincidental fact that he is Protestant would also restore the Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. As the new Finance Minister, Adenauer named Franz Etzel, hitherto...
Adenauer's first gambit was to offer Schäffer a new Ministry of Economic Property, which would administer government-owned or controlled enterprises (Volkswagen, 50% of the nation's iron ore. 90% of its lignite). He sweetened the pill by asking if Schäffer would also like to be Vice Chancellor. Protestants within Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party promptly squawked that to replace Protestant Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher with Roman Catholic Schaffer would wreck the Cabinet balance between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Schäffer agreed to accept only if he was also...
Brushing off congratulations at the swearing-in ceremonies with "Yes, but this does not end my troubles," Adenauer hurried back to his study to write Schäffer that his proposal was "unsatisfactory" and that it was no longer possible to offer him the vice-chancellorship. Schäffer's Bavarian party followers rushed to Adenauer to suggest that Schäffer could be mollified if he was offered the Justice Ministry. Within minutes, Adenauer scratched off his first choice as Justice Minister, put down Schäffer's name instead. "Oh, how they make me suffer...