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...militarism; of a stroke; in Diez, Germany. Unruh's moving description of the battle of Verdun in Way of Sacrifice became classic testimony to the cruelty of war. A founder of several anti-Hitler organizations and delegate in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic, Unruh was a staunch anti-Nazi and went into voluntary exile, first in France, then in the U.S., refusing Hitler's offer to make him "the modern Schiller." Upon returning home in 1948, he spoke as a voice of Germany's conscience, preaching that only personal acceptance of guilt could make...
Ebert's colleagues describe him as a staunch liberal, a mediator rather than a pusher, a listener rather than a dictator. He has assumed an outspoken political position on the war-much to the chagrin of older conservative alumni-and last October he joined a group from the Med School handing out leaflets at the Moratorium rally...
Within the Stanford faculty, he is a staunch defender of academic freedom an equally staunch opponent of campus violence, according to one editor of the Stanford Daily. The Daily has had its own run-in this fall with Kennedy after he led a faculty campaign to censure them for a radical article they ran under the by-line of a member of the Bay Area Revolutionary Union...
Gordon likes President Nixon almost as much as he likes Segal. He describes himself as a "staunch Republican." The penholder on his desk bears a plaque inscribed to Gordon from his "friend, Dick Nixon...
...glasses and a dark kerchief, was Marlene Dietrich. Notable absentees: any high-level members of the Nigerian government, which is still bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state of Biafra; and Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether Trudeau, a staunch Canadian federalist, stayed away because he was still furious over De Gaulle's famous cry "Vive la Québec libre!" during a 1967 visit there, or simply too burdened by the emergency caused by separatist terrorism. The former seems probable...