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...Obstacle. The cold war, says Halle, was a sharp spasm in the world balance of power, caused by Russia's overexpansion into Europe at the end of World War II. Just as Napoleon's France and the Germanys of Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler had upset the power balances of the past, Stalin's push into the vacuum after 1945 precipitated years of struggle to restore the balance. As Halle sees it, the Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance...
...Alfried Krupp such a humiliation was intolerable. In the years since the firm began as an Essen foundry in 1811, the House of Krupp had been courted by Bismarck, the Kaisers and Hitler. Kaiser Wilhelm I called it a "national institution." Wilhelm II was Alfried's godfather. And at Alfried's birth, his father Gustav wrote to his directors: "May he grow up in the Krupp works, and through practical work acquire the fundamentals he will require to take over the responsibility-laden duties...
Their father, Wilhelm Marx, a distant relative of Karl, emigrated in 1895 from Germany and established a large tannery in Brazil. Mother Cecilia Burle Marx was a cultivated Brazilian who made the family home in Rio de Janeiro a citadel of culture where Enrico Caruso came to call. It was an ideal climate for budding genius, and three sons emerged as the most amazing and talented brother act in Brazil...
...Grand-Hotel de 1'Europe in Bad Gastein, Austria. Since the 15th century when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III discovered the therapeutic effects of Bad Gastein's thermal waters, the tiny Alpine village has been called "the Spa of Kings." Kaiser Wilhelm spent 20 seasons there, and it remains a favored haven for pashas and potentates. The sprawling, four-story hotel, opened in 1909, boasts bathrooms with 7-ft.-sq. tubs, marble floors and walls, and taps for mineral as well as plain water. ¶-Park-Hotel Adler in Hinterzarten, Germany. An ancient Black Forest inn that dates...
...Washington bureau made news himself last week. On the Cal 40 sloop, Lancetilla II, owned and skippered by him, Economics Correspondent Juan Cameron won the Annapolis-Newport regatta, which this year proved to be one of the roughest in memory. Among Cameron's crew were John Wilhelm, also of the Washington bureau, Norris Brock, a TIME-LIFE Broadcast cameraman, Carter Brown, assistant director of the National Gallery, and Robert Amory, former deputy director of the CIA. Gales of up to 55 miles closed in about a day out, and from the time they left Chesapeake Bay, Cameron and company...