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Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique") (Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). Most neurotic of symphonies, straightforwardly performed in one of the most brilliant of all orchestra recordings. Made in London several years ago; no royalties go to Germany...
...years ago last Nov. 11, a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. In that same railway car, 2419D, at 6: 50 p.m. last June 22, a delegation of Frenchmen signed an armistice dictated by Germany's Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel...
...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...
...Most-talked-of conductor in Berlin was dark, handsome, poised, 30-year-old Herbert von Karajan. He waves the baton at the State Opera, is rated only a notch below deaconlike Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler of the Berlin Philharmonic...
Scapegoat elected for Mussolini's Albanian fiasco was white-haired, crinkle-eyed Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of the General Staff, universally recognized as Italy's sagest soldier. He had opposed the Greek venture. Germany's Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal...