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Show DR. MUCK ADMITS GOOD TREATMENT Boston Symphony Orchestra Leader Discusses His Interment in the United States. BERLIN. Nov. 29. (By the Associated Press.) Dr. Karl Muck, formerly conductor conduc-tor of the Boston Symphony orchestra, says he was accorded "altogether worthy" treatment during his sixteen months of Internment as an enemy alien In the United States. The noted musician has just returned to Berlin from Copenhagen, where he landed several months ago after af-ter leaving the internment camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. "I was directing the Boston Symphony orchestra when the war broke out," Dr. Muck said to a reporter of the Berlin Tageblatt. "For some time 1 was unmolested, un-molested, even after America entered the conflict. In March, IMS. however, I was interned. My wife remained In our house In Boston and I was sent to the prison camp, where I was confined with 4o00 other oth-er persons. "The treatment and shelter were altogether alto-gether worthy. The food was not to be complained of. especially as 120 people, including myself, had their own mess and their own cook. My wife was permitted to visit me once a week and spend two hours with me, naturally talking in English En-glish and in the presence of an officer." Dr. Muck said he had not lost many of his friends in America and that his musicians had stood by him loyally. "Uo conditions were imposed on the prisoners," said Dr. Muck, "but It was urgently suggested that anyone who wanted to leave America and return to Germany might have liberty. I did not want to comply with this stipulation, but my wife argued me into it and 1 finally agreed. And so one day I was free. My bank account and my house In Boston the American government lias confiscated, and I do not know how things will come out." Dr. Muck said he had made no plans for the future, but that under no circumstances circum-stances would ho remain in Berlin. He said It was possible he might go to Switzerland Switz-erland or to Gratx, Austria, where his wife's aged mother lives. On his first day In Berlin he led the rehearsal for the next Welngartner Symphony concert. |