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...many outstanding political leaders in this country and abroad feel differently. Accolades for A.D.A., on the occasion of its 15th anniversary, were received from Eleanor Roosevelt, former Senator Herbert Lehman, Hugh Gaitskell, Ambassador to Peru James Loeb, Mayor Robert Wagner, President Betancourt of Venezuela, Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party...
...ceremony at Western Railway Station in Vienna last week recalled Austria's ancient grandeur. The Viennese Guards, clad in grey uniforms with silver fourra-geres, stood at attention as a trumpet blared. Beside them on the platform waited Austrian President Adolf Scharf and Chancellor Alfons Gorbach as the train slid in bearing West Germany's President Heinrich Liibke for a five-day state visit...
...Scharf's exile was an unexpected and brutal blow to German Protestantism, for this determined churchman was the only link between church leaders in West Berlin and 13 million Evangelical Church members under Red dominion. Thus at a stroke this flock was cut off from its shepherd and outlawed as an organization...
...choosing Scharf to succeed crusty Bishop Otto Dibelius last February as head of the Evangelical Church, the synod bore in mind his reputation for dealing with the Reds in a way that won their grudging respect. Said one top Communist official: "Give me Scharf rather than any other churchman. At least I understand what he wants." And in office Kurt Scharf has been uniquely free to attend church meetings across the border-even on occasion to go abroad, as he did for the enthronement of Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury...
Last week Dr. Scharf stayed quiet, determined not to do or say anything that would endanger his possible return to East Germany at some later time, perhaps after a peace treaty with Russia is signed. Adding to his closemouthed caution was the presence of one of his daughters in East Germany's Potsdam, where she works in a hospital. But the West Berlin Senate, under no such wraps, made a blistering denunciation of this "most infamous form of deportation," calling the outlawing of the Evangelical Church "the last resort of a regime that no longer shrinks from any hypocrisy...