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...Catholicism in the U.S., Father Jean Danielou, S.J., contends that American Catholics are too separatist. "They tend to constitute a self-sufficing community, and as a result, to live apart within the nation . . . American Catholic universities are institutions of great value . . . But apart from this, it is essential that Catholicism should also be represented in non-Catholic universities. And this, which appears to be normal in France, appears to be revolutionary in the U.S.A...
...that gained most was the Free Democratic Party, economically to the right of the Christian Democrats and called the "Bankers' Party" by the Socialists; the Free Democrats got 52 seats, trebling their best showing in earlier local contests. The extreme right-wing Deutsche Partei and the hotheaded Bavarian separatist Bayernpartei polled 17 seats each; local and splinter groups, mostly right-wing, gained 32 seats between them. The Communists were soundly beaten (6% of the total vote, 15 seats...
...East. Selfish and insular Bavaria speaks most clownishly through the separatist Bayernpartei. Its leader, squat, jowly Josef Baumgartner, sums up his creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...
More sobersided was Jo Mueller's warning over the separatist dream of a South German state under the auspices of Paris: "Slice off southern Germany," he said, "and you surrender the north to the Soviets in the long run. You can't build a Paris-Munich-Vienna line without opening the way for a Moscow-Berlin-Ruhr line...
...Emptiness. German nationalism is growing in Bavaria, and growing fast. What has been called "democratization" is proceeding slowly. Every German political leader with whom I have talked here -Socialist or Christian Democrat or Separatist-acknowledges these two facts at once. The future, not of Bavaria alone but all Germany, and perhaps all Europe, depends heavily on whether the U.S. reacts to these facts with only a shudder, or with intelligence and understanding...