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...Gaullists include Konrad Aden auer, increasingly suspicious of U.S. aims, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, former Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, and Bundestag Deputy Karl Theodor Baron von Guttenberg. They are all more or less sympathetic to De Gaulle's concept of a little Europe, with "Anglo-Saxon" influences diminished...
...first, no one was exactly sure why Wernher von Braun, 51, was visiting Argentina. His several lectures on the U.S. moon program were in such German-accented English that even Argentines who hablan inglés could hardly a word begreifen. But as it turned out, Wernher was there to listen, not talk. Argentine military and scientific brass had asked him down to hear all about South America's leading space program. Proudly, they explained that right now a mess of mice were being given extensive psychological and physiological tests so that the perfect 4-oz. moustronaut could...
...Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, gave the Holy See evidence of the anti-Jewish campaign, and the U.S. Minister to Switzerland warned the Vatican that failure to condemn these atrocities "is undermining faith both in the church and in the Holy Father himself." Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker, who claimed that he tried to protect the Pope from Hitler's wrath while serving as German envoy to the Holy See, cabled his Foreign Ministry superiors: "The Pope has not allowed himself to be forced into any demonstrative utterances against the deportation of the Jews...
...best evidence of Pius' own judgment is his 1943 letter to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing: "We leave it to the pastoral leaders on the spot to weigh whether and to what degree the danger of retaliation and pressure in case of remonstration by bishops make it appear advisable to exercise restraint to prevent greater evil, despite the listed grievances. Here lies one of the reasons why we ourselves impose limitations on ourselves in our public utterances...
...Appeasers is like a biography which discusses its subject as if he were the only man alive. The authors have a great time tracing the movements of the appeasers, but they don't pause to consider the medium through which their subjects move. Von Ribbentrop appears as a soft piece of putty shaped by English hands. One does not hear of his constant efforts to soothe Hitler, his competition with the German ambassador in Moscow, or his fear of admitting defeat in his own policies. All were important in determining the scene upon which Chamberlain played the fool...