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...grim, quiet East German left his house in East Berlin a fortnight ago and made his way to the Praesidium der Volkspolizei for a pass to enter the Western zone. A three-month pass was duly handed over, and he was not surprised, for Dr. Kurt Scharf, 58, is chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany-the highest post in German Protestantism-and his wife and four children live in the Western zone, where he has been visiting them about once a week...
...Kurt Scharf crossed the boundary unhindered in his official car. But that evening, at the same check point, his pass and identity card were confiscated when he handed them over for examination, and he was told that he could not return to East Berlin. The ominous and insulting reason: as head of the Evangelical Church Council, he was "the leader of an illegal organization inimical to peace...
...coffee, gulped down at a strategy conference aboard his plane?on the morning of his flight to Vienna. Despite the wet weather, more than 70,000 Austrians turned out along Kennedy's 15-mile journey from Schwechat to Alte Hofburg, the palatial residence of Austrian President Dr. Adolf Scharf. Khrushchev, grinning his cordial peasant best, had not done nearly so well; the Soviet leader drew fewer than 50.000 during his ceremonial motorcade to visit Scharf. Along the way, low whistles (the Viennese version of the Bronx cheer) punctuated thin, tired applause. But Khrushchev seemed not to notice, expressed his hope...
After his courtesy call on Dr. Scharf, Kennedy drove to the embassy residence of Ambassador H. Freeman Matthews...
...acceptance speech, Dr. Scharf trod circumspectly between East and West, hoping for "peace with everyone." In view of "the many crises besetting the church," he said, he would aim "not to find dramatic solutions, but to progress bit by bit." And for his motto, he chose the lines from Romans 12:12: "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer...