Surprise for Karl Jaspers

Letter from Germany _

May 8, 1966 will go down in the his- – tory of journalism as a day on which the New York Times clarified what it considers fit to print, and what not. On that day, the New York Times published a report by Mr. Philip Shabecoff in which the American pub- lic was let in on the worst-kept secret of German publishing: that Karl Jas- pers, the great philosopher, disagrees with Konrad Adenauer.

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William S. Schlamm

Letter from Germany _

May 8, 1966 will go down in the his- – tory of journalism as a day on which the New York Times clarified what it considers fit to print, and what not. On that day, the New York Times published a report by Mr. Philip Shabecoff in which the American pub- lic was let in on the worst-kept secret of German publishing: that Karl Jas- pers, the great philosopher, disagrees with Konrad Adenauer.