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When a new state government took office last month, the job of Minister of Culture went to aggressive, 34-year-old Leonhard Schlüter. He had been a hard, bright, ambitious youngster in Hitler's Germany. His mother was half-Jewish, but somehow even this did not handicap him too much. While some of his relatives were killed in concentration camps, young Schlüter went into Hitler's Wehrmacht, won a decoration in France, was wounded and discharged, then entered the University of Göttingen as a law student...
When to Shift. When the British occupied Lower Saxony, Schlüter presented himself as a victim who had suffered for his trace of Jewish blood, got a job as a high-ranking police officer in the Göttingen Allied Military Government. He proved a tough cop, efficient at rounding up local Nazis, but just as rough on others, too. But when his administration was involved in accusations of bribery, embezzlement and maltreatment, the British fired...
Schlüter turned to politics, and displayed a blatant affinity for Naziism. "National Socialism is the most healthy movement in Germany since the turn of the century." he is reported to have shouted from a political platform. In the ultranationalist region of Lower Saxony and in the disorder of early postwar politics, such demagoguery served him well. But he always knew when to shift his line, when to recall his Jewish blood and pose as a victim of the Nazis...
...HONOUR MORE, by Joyce Cary (309 pp.; Harper; $3.50), winds up a trilogy, kills off three of its main charac ters and, as usual, leaves the readers of British Novelist Gary oddly moved and vaguely irritated. In Volume I, Prisoner of Grace, Heroine Nina Latter told her story - that of a woman who obviously needed two husbands, behaved outrageously with both, but was so genuinely lovable that neither could live without her, and all three wound up living to gether. In Volume II, Except the Lord, her first husband, Liberal Politician Ches ter Nimmo, had his say and explained...
Harvard Economist Sumner Slich-ter, who has proved an accurate prophet in the postwar years, outlined what tax cuts could mean. Said he: "A $4,000-a-year man might well be living like a $5,000-a-year man. Or, putting it another way, it might enable people to live on a scale in 1956 or 1957 that they hadn't considered possible before 1960." Said Chairman Arthur Burns of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "A large-scale reduction or elimination of armaments would give us a magnificent and welcome opportunity for raising living standards...