Word: bundesrepublik
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...Jochen Vogel, is West Germany's youngest civic leader, and Julius Cardinal Döpfner, at 50, is one of Roman Catholicism's leading liberals and youngest princes. Youth means vigor, and with an 8% annual economic-growth rate, Munich is the most vigorous city in the Bundesrepublik...
Nazism is nowhere deader than in West Berlin; the city has elected Jewish widow, whose husband and children died in the concentration camps, as a delegate to the Bundesrepublik's parliament. the miniscule German Party's anti-Semitic rally of a few months ago drew immediate and hearted public protest...
...refugee problem is one of the biggest the Allied sector has to handle. No one is turned back, but all are carefully screened to week out spies. Lucky ones can find work in the Bundesrepublik but most are fated to exist on dole and live in camps. Two hundred thousand West Berliners, mostly refugees, are unemployed--one-fifth of the labor force...
...battered, bustling towns of Western Germany, campaign posters and blaring sound trucks shattered summer's sluggish quiet. Next week, in their first free general election since Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Germans will choose 400 representatives for the Bundestag (lower house) of the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, the long-awaited Federal Republic of Germany. Chief contestants for power: the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Their platforms had one vital plank in common: sharp criticism of the Western occupation powers...