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...with Churchill and in the White House with Roosevelt. Wedemeyer felt Roosevelt's demand for unconditional surrender in 1943 was a grave error, compelling Germany, which might have turned against Hitler, to fight to the bitter end. Wedemeyer's closest friend from the Kriegsakademie was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who planted the bomb that nearly killed Hitler...
...Wolf Von Eckhardt. Rerported by Kathryn Jackson Fallon/New York
...trip. "The West's policy was never all or nothing," noted West German Defense Minister Worner. "The allies should resist all divisive tactics." During his three-day stay in West Germany, Bush is to deliver a major address at a West Berlin dinner at which Mayor Richard von Weizsacker will be host, as well as meet with government and opposition leaders in Bonn. One problem the Vice President faces is avoiding the appearance of attempting to influence the West German elections scheduled for March 6, in which the Kohl government faces growing opposition from the Social Democrats, most recently...
Wouk had already absorbed his first lesson in cinematic construction from the original scriptwriter, Jack Pulman. A key element in the novel was the ironic perspective of the apocryphal German General Von Roon, who narrated the historical passages. Pulman maintained that Von Roon's literary irony could not be preserved and that his insights ought to be dramatized in scenes showing world leaders in action. "It was a hell of a shock to me," says Wouk. But within a day Wouk had concluded that it was "a craftsmanlike stroke that cut to the heart of the matter...
...conductor for life" of the fabled Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, 74, long ago grew accustomed to governing his orchestra with an autocratic hauteur that was seldom challenged. So the conductor expected no back-chair back talk when he named Sabine Meyer, 23, as the new solo clarinetist, and only the second female member in the philharmonic's 100-year history. But an overwhelming majority of the 118-member orchestra voted to oppose Von Karajan's protégée as "unsuitable" because of her alleged weakness as an ensemble performer. Outraged, the conductor coolly informed...