Word: schloss
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From the outside, Schloss Rheydt is just another moated Rhineland castle. Within, it is an art lover's eyeful. There the British have collected German ecclesiastical art treasures, rescued by the Western Allies from their wartime hideouts...
...Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees of the Tiergarten will grow again. The statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I on the Schloss-Platz has its eagles scattered about, but the old man rides as arrogantly as ever...
...Gangling, weak-chinned Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern. fourth son of the Kaiser, enthusiastic Brownshirt brigadier and Nazi Reichstag deputy, once dubbed "national orator" by Hitler. (His stepmother, Princess Hermine, also passed into U.S. custody at Schloss Rossla in the Harz mountains...
Through the smoke the Russians could see the great Gothic tower of Königsberg's Schloss. For nearly seven centuries the Schloss (castle) had stood as a symbol of Prussianism. There the Teutonic Order had been nurtured. The tower reared 277 feet, a monument to the Junker caste that was the heart and mind of German militarism...
...Philadelphia heard last week sounded as if Shostakovich's seat were secure-even though the symphony lacked a choral apotheosis of Lenin which the composer had originally planned. Unorthodox in symphonic form, its three movements were: slow, fast, faster. The last movement reminded one Philadelphia critic (Edwin H. Schloss of the Record) of "Comrade John Philip Sousa, in blouse and boots...