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West Germany's Heinrich von Bren-tano put the difficulty in bold terms. The West obviously did and must support the peoples of Eastern Europe in their attempts to throw off their Russian masters. But just how far could this go, if the West felt helpless to come to their aid with armed force? If East Germany revolted, Von Brentano said, he was afraid that the West German public would want to go to the aid of their compatriots-and thus perhaps bring on retaliation from the Russian army poised on West Germany's borders. Von Brentano...
...move, when consummated, will put scholarly, competent Heinrich von Bren-tano in a commanding if not certain position to lead the Christian Democratic Party once Adenauer retires or dies. A tense, chain-smoking bachelor of solemn mien, Brentano is the scion of a Frankfurt family that for two centuries has produced philosophers and professors. He is a connoisseur of wines, a lover of highbrow talk, collector of old silver and old furniture. He distrusts political eloquence, is an indifferent orator himself, although a good lawyerlike diplomat and bargainer. Although Brentano is one of the founders of the C.D.U. party...
...steamed away, ostensibly to get reinforcements. Meanwhile, a detachment of guards in the rear car of the express lay low, hoping the bandits would overlook them. It was a vain hope. Concentrating their aim on the rear car, the bandits pinned down the guards with a barrage of Bren and Sten gunfire, turning aside only to kill any passengers from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped the dead and wounded of all their clothes and possessions, rounded up those who could still walk, and forced them to shoulder the loot and carry...
...little chair. An air of smoldering enmity hung over the capital city of Nicosia. Shops shut tight in protest; workers left jobs. Men no longer sat at cafes but lounged sullenly at the curbs; they glared and spat as young British troopers rattled past in Land Rovers, their Bren guns trained outboard...
...confirmed by two twelve-year-old boys who had seen strange men carrying heavy cases into a vacant building. Detectives quietly swooped on the building and in a cobweb-hung cellar found 45 ammunition boxes and twelve larger cases containing Bren and Sten guns. Atop one case lay a loaded .38 revolver, its owner evidently having recently fled. In the city of Dublin next day, newspaper editors received an official communiqué from the I.R.A.'s "Adjutant General" Diarmid Macdiarmada reporting "a successful raid by a party of ten volunteers, all [of whom] have now been accounted...