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DIED. William S. Schlamm, 74, Polish-born writer and a former Communist who turned into a staunch conservative during the 1930s; of a heart attack; on Sept. 1, in Salzburg. Immigrating to the U.S. before World War II, Schlamm served as an editor of FORTUNE and assistant to Henry Luce in the 1940s, and in the 1950s helped create and edit National Review. Returning to Europe, he founded his own political magazine, Zeitbuhne, in West Germany...
...five years of life, Buckley has led National Review through a sometimes baffling intellectual maze. In 1956, one of its editors, James (The Managerial Revolution) Burnham, recommended President Eisenhower's reelection: "The least bad choice." In the same issue, another editor, William S. Schlamm, urged Eisenhower's defeat: "To liberate the Republican Party from the man who is destroying it." In 1960 the magazine has endorsed Richard M. Nixon, but with the back of its hand ("Who likes Nixon's Republicanism? We don't"), as the only alternative to the Democrats' John F. Kennedy...
...policy, The Freeman promised to "favor the constant growth of cooperation between free peoples" with an emphasis on "the development of mutual goodwill." Just what type of goodwill and cooperation the magazine wanted to promote was clarified in "Why Europe Resents Us" (October 2). According to its author, William Schlamm, "our long and costly attempt to save the Old World" has produced an unexpected reaction among the Europeans. "Today the exasperating European contempt for America is no longer the mere pastime of arrogant and more or less discountable British and Continental snobs." As Mr. Schlamm sees it, this contempt...
...outsiders the raid drew attention to the New Leader's main claim to distinction-as bellwether for exile and native anti-Communists in the U. S. Among them: Willi Schlamm, leader at 16 of the Austrian Communist Party, one of the first to break with Stalin; Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist...
None the less, his promotion was slow. He was 47 before he became a colonel (1894) but he had plodded valiantly through Bismarck's Blut und Schlamm (blood and mud). Moreover he had become a valued if not a great tactician and had served as a professor at the War Academy. In 1896 his reward came. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, and in 1904 was transferred to command the IV Army Corps−the summit of a German General's hopes in time of peace...