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BONN, West Germany--Chancellor Helmut Kohl dropped plans yesterday to advance all-German elections by six weeks, a major political defeat for the leader who until now had set the pace of German unification...
...Kohl-Genscher marriage of convenience may end after the December elections for the new all-German parliament. The East German elections in March showed little support for Genscher's party, which may have trouble in December winning the necessary percentage of votes to stay in the Bundestag. Ironically, by laying the foundation for unification, Genscher has inadvertently made his political survival a good deal dicier...
...took heart. The Italians rose against their Habsburg overlords; and even in dormant Germany, crowds began marching through the streets of Berlin, Vienna, Dresden. The armies of Germany's princes eventually suppressed these demonstrations, but not before liberals organized a constituent assembly, which met in Frankfurt and drafted an all-German constitution. The legislators decided that they could put their ideas into practice only by offering the crown of a united Germany to King Frederick William IV of Prussia. But he considered himself King of Prussia by the grace of God, and scorned any crown offered him by people...
...owns what. What does a 1930s deed mean in a country where almost everything has been Volkseigentum, or property of the people, for the past 40 years? Who is entitled to a house built on land confiscated by the state? What are the rights of longtime renters? The All-German Institute, a West German authority, estimates that West Germans have claims to more than 1 million homes, factories and parcels of land in the East. So sensitive is the issue of ownership that it was left out of the state treaty that went into effect last Sunday...
...Everyone knows that I am an old supporter of Berlin. But this subject does not have to be dealt with now. It will be debated in an all-German parliament. The decision on a capital cannot be made as long as Soviet troops are deployed there. The Rhine will flow for a long time until this question is raised. If that were our only problem, we would have no problems...