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...there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with all the people 'round. This one is followed by a ballet number on the same theme which employs every cliche of dance and plot. It is very well danced by Viola Essen, but Markova couldn't make choreography interesting...
...Allied effort to reestablish a free German press. In the summer of 1945, when "good" Germans were hard to find, American officers summoned him from his village of Mahlow. They knew his record: he was a onetime (1920-27) publicist for the Krupp works at Essen, later an anti-Nazi novelist and broadcaster. During the war he had escaped the Gestapo's notice by dropping his pen name of Reger for his real name, Hermann Dannenberger...
...need for the new economic plan was underlined by a crisis which mushroomed 150 miles to the north. Hungry Ruhr workers began a series of food strikes; at Solingen. Essen, Düsseldorf, Mühlheim, and then in Munich in the U.S. zone, workers laid down their tools. Food distribution had been bumbled. Local German governments paid scant attention to the food quotas set up by the present bizonal Economic Council, which was powerless to enforce its orders. The new economic courts, invested with power superior to the individual states, would be able to prosecute and penalize the state...
What Do You Want? Aboard the train, the Congressmen compared notes and saw some eye-openers. One group had questioned the eleven-man council of Germans who represented the workers in Essen's coal mines...
General Clay's special train pulled out of Essen and trundled the Congressmen to Frankfort. There they all shook hands, split into teams and hurried off in all directions. This week the rest of the show-me committee was spread all over western Europe-in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Rome-asking questions, taking notes...