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...reason, of course, was fear that plain talk from West Germans might unduly stir East Germany's masses. But in the looking-glass world behind the Wall, the Communists had a different version; they made it sound as though the West Germans had fouled up the show. Walter Ulbricht told a collective-farm fair near Leipzig that debates could not take place under the "Damocles sword" of the special safe-conduct law that was enacted-in response to Ulbricht's own requests-by the West German Parliament two weeks ago in order to permit Communist speakers to attend...
...disrupting the nation's economy, if only because the demand for capital is so intense. Thus the board has little room to tighten money further without kicking up the discount rate once again. That is a step which a majority of the board opposes, partly because it would stir up a political tempest, and partly because quite a few financial men recognize that the upward pressures on the economy are easing...
...sere, stunning high-plateau country of New Mexico, the movie describes an unhurried but sometimes harrowing year in the life of the ten-year-old Miguel (Pat Cardi), whose only real problem is growing up. Manly ambition has begun to stir in the boy's child body, and he aches to join the men of his family. Sheepherders for many generations, they spend every summer with their flocks in the green grazing lands of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. So Miguel waits, but not idly, for his time to come. And for the viewer, months shrink into moments full...
...extermination of Jews-and the possibility of compiling official German documents on the subject. From these and other sources-but not from Vatican documents, which were not available to him-Friedlander wrote Pius XII and the Third Reich (Knopf; $4.95). It seems likely to create the same kind of stir as Playwright Rolf Hochhuth's polemical The Deputy...
...Germans, takes note of papal statements that indicate Pius' personal anguish over Nazi atrocities. Friedlander also quotes from a long letter that the Pope wrote to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing in 1943 suggesting that an open protest would do no good, since it would only stir Hitler to worse evils. He includes the argument made by Vatican diplomats that for Pius to attack Hitler during the war would involve German Catholics in a crisis of confidence, and would be open to one-sided exploitation by Allied propaganda...