Word: willems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ended with a performance of Brahms's First Symphony, so magnificently traditional that the composer might have applauded it as enthusiastically as the Carnegie audience did. On its U.S. tour, the Concertgebouw will be led only part of the time by Conductor van Beinum, who succeeded the late Willem Mengelberg as its head in 1946. Half the concerts will be led by Czech-born Rafael Kubelik, 40, who conducted the Chicago Symphony for three stormy years and next fall will become musical director of London's Covent Garden Opera. Before the Concertgebouw leaves for home...
Last week, though retiring, Boeke declared that he was far from through. With the aid of a new foundation, headed by former Prime Minister Willem Schermerhorn, he and his wife intend to return to Lebanon, hope to set up a community for poor Arab children. Says he of those children he once knew so well: "We would rather like to give ourselves to them...
...assembly wound up its 17 days with some notable pieces of business. The delegates re-elected Dr. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft as general secretary of the World Council, elected Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, as chairman of the powerful, 90-man Central Committee, which will carry on the Council's business between assemblies, and decided to meet again in 1960. Of the final statements approved, the most noteworthy were...
Mendèes' allies were furious. "Nine-tenths unacceptable," snapped Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Willem Beyen. Cracked the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten: "The only regulation really missing is one requiring German soldiers to turn in their rifles every evening...
...particularly the German and the Dutch, had already faced up to the consequences of rejecting Mendès' protocols and decided that, bad as those consequences were, the acceptance of an EDC that would make a mockery of a united Europe was infinitely worse. The Netherlands' Johan Willem Beyen gave Mendes a direct answer: "I apologize for not being able to agree with the French proposals." Konrad Adenauer followed, looking grey, tired, and deeply suspicious of the facile Frenchman opposite. The 78-year-old Chancellor objected to Mendès' discriminations against German soldiers, but what...