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Still in jail was Lorraine-born Composer Florent Schmitt, whose symphonic and chamber music scores were among the most massive if not the most remarkable produced in prewar France. Schmitt had an enthusiastic collaborationist record...
Although the Navy's chaplains have seen much active service, only three have been killed so far (two others are listed as missing) in World War II. Two were killed at Pearl Harbor: Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick (Presbyterian) and Moysius Herman Schmitt (Catholic). Within the past month the name of each has been given to a newly launched destroyer escort...
...Mussolini had agreed on their hatred of modern music. As World War II approached, many of the league's European members wavered between exile and totalitarianism. Spain's famed Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat) signed with Dictator Franco. Parisian Composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt toured Germany as honored guests of the Third Reich. Italian Modernist G. Francesco Malipiero began writing Fascist anthems for Mussolini. Unable to cope with political wanderings, in 1939 the embarrassed league restricted its composer membership to U.S. citizens...
Next morning, again in South St. Louis, the same scene was repeated. Over the body of Jerome U. Schmitt, 19, private in the Marines, who died of wounds on a Pacific battlefront, a Roman Catholic priest intoned the Requiem Mass. Out in a suburban cemetery, three volleys echoed again...
There will be no more U.S. funerals of soldiers killed in action abroad. The bodies of Private Schmitt and Private Weiner came all the thousands of miles home through an error. These two that were first will be the last, until the war is done...