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...Travel Incognito, Bemelmans adopts the cognomen of Ludwig, Prince of Bavaria. The title is pressed on him by his good friend, the Comte de St. Cucuface. "You must take full advantage of your title," Cucuface tells Prince Bemelmans. "You are now no longer a tourist to be pushed about. You are the one to do the pushing. You will give bad tips and be better served than anyone else. You must not pay your bills and shopkeepers will swear that you are indeed a real prince...
Even so, there will still be some rather choice amenities for the conquerors. The U.S. Army intends to hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
...Assumption of the Virgin was not lost, just displaced. A German private who was also something of an artist had spotted the picture in the ruins, rolled it up and carried it away with him. He cached it for a while in Austria, then took it home to Bavaria. Eventually he wrote to the abbot of Monte Cassino, offering to return the picture if he was hired to repair it himself. U.S. Occupation authorities traced the letter, briskly reclaimed the painting and sent it on to the Bavarian State Picture Gallery in Munich for authentification...
After the war, Jouhaux helped found the International Labor Organization at the Paris peace conference. In the '30s, he and his C.G.T. were a linchpin of the Socialist Front Populaire; fighting Franco, Laval and Hitler, he worked alongside the Communists. The Germans interned him in a castle in Bavaria during World War II. When he returned, he found that the Communists had moved into the C.G.T. like moths. He had to accept a Communist as "co-secretary general." For a time Jouhaux put up with the comrades, but by the end of 1947, he saw that he was simply...
Today the remarkable fact is that Western Germany is pouring out more goods of all kinds than in 1938, the peak year of Göring's arms drive. From the Baltic shores to the rolling green hills of Bavaria, there is a throb and a hum. On the wide, sweeping autobahns there are more cars than ever before in German history. Building of houses is up to America's boom-time rate. Once shattered and chilled by Allied bombs, the Ruhr's blast furnaces this week were hot and glowing, reddening the night sky with...