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Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne (Ilse Hollweg, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Berry, soloists; Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard; Columbia...
...Philadelphia, the Art Commission withheld approval of Sculptor Waldemar Raemisch's half-size plaster models of two pieces of sculpture for the city's new detention home for juveniles. Photos of Raemisch's models showed a group of round-faced children gathered around a round-faced mother. Objected one member of the commission: the figures look "pie-faced." Agreed Sculptor Giuseppe Donate: the faces of the children look as if they had "retarded minds." Said Donato: "We have a responsibility to the public to see that they get a first-rate piece of art." The commission asked...
...violated its constitutional neutrality in favoring a Socialist victory. ¶ He supported State Secretary Otto Lenz's scheme for a new Ministry of Information, backed down only after the press fiercely attacked it as too reminiscent of Goebbelsism. ¶He indicated that he would reward Opportunist Waldemar Kraft's new BHE (Refugee Party) with one or two Cabinet jobs if it "behaved properly." With Kraft's support, Adenauer would have a two-thirds Bundestag majority, enabling him to change the constitution if need be. All these proposals would cause little alarm in a well-established two-party...
Every German party is wooing them, but one excels all the rest. The All-German Bloc (BHE) began as the League of Expellees and Victims of Injustice. Today it is the private political vehicle of a Polish-born, ex-SS captain named Waldemar Kraft. In the refugee-laden farm steads near the Danish border, Kraft's name is magic. In 1950 he ran up 23% of the vote in local elections in Schleswig-Holstein. BHE might win 40 to 50 seats in the Bundestag...
...sure that it would not become a neo-Nazi shrine. Last week the Bavarian state government agreed, decided to blow up the remains of the lower-altitude chalets, turn over the Eagle's Nest either to an Alpine club, youth hostel or research organization. Said Social Democratic Leader Waldemar von Knoeringen: "Hitler's real monuments are the ruined cities of Germany, and no other monuments should be allowed to remain...