Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great hall of the University of Bonn one day last week, retiring Rector Ernst Friesenhahn stood before 1,000 students, professors and guests to say a few words about himself and his successor. "It seems symbolic to me," said he, "that a rector who was refused a teaching position by the Nazis in 1933 is succeeded by a rector who was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933." Thereupon, anti-Nazi Ernst Friesenhahn, who will return to teaching law, took off his crimson cap and gown, handed the symbols of his office to anti-Nazi Werner Richter...
...phone calls, tedious interviews with hundreds of slow-talking, hard-to-draw-out officials, hours of checking directories and his tories, reports and papers. In a country in transition, the agencies of government are split and scattered. Besides half a dozen occupation headquarters, there are the German government at Bonn, special agencies like the Allied Security Board at Coblenz, various provincial governments, and the separate officials at Berlin. Gibbs describes Germany as hydra-like, with "the political head at Bonn, the cultural head at Munich, the indus trial head at Diissel-dorf, and the traditional head at Berlin." The bureau...
...TIME bureaus which rim the Iron Curtain are, of course, a major source of news from that half of the world which is cloistered by Communist sentries. Eric Gibbs, chief of our bureau at Bonn, Germany, is now starting back after a four-week visit in New York, in which he described some of the new skills in reportage required to out such an assignment...
Such painstaking investigations, along with whispered conversations and furtive trips to informants in Berlin's Soviet sector, are only a small part of the continuing job of the Bonn bureau. Its more important task, difficult in itself, is the solid reporting of what is now happening in Germany...
...typist, joined the Nazi Party in 1941. He has twice reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade, he switched westward, made $700,000 profit this year out of trading German steel for U.S. coal. Schlieker now claims to be a reformed character. To prove it, he recently gave Düsseldorf $475,000 for workers' housing. A British dossier concludes: "Schlieker...