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...Bundestag to pass its own anti-cartel law. At times, Erhard's fight-which Germans jestingly called "the Seven Years' War"-seemed hopeless. No European nation had ever adopted a law comparable to the Sherman Act, and none appeared less likely to do so than Germany, fatherland of the classic cartel. (In the mid-1930s, experts estimated that nearly 2,000 cartel agreements were in force in German industry.) Already chafing under the decartelization imposed on them by the Allies at the end of World War II, West German industrialists (who furnish the ruling Christian Democratic Party with...
...Paraguay. Unable to find or silence the troublesome station, anti-Perón Argentines have begun broadcasting with a stronger transmitter on the same wave band, in an attempt to turn Perón's recorded mouthings into a joke. "We are broadcasting from the heart of the fatherland," spouts Lux 45. "You mean from the liver," answers the anti-Perón transmitter, japing at the Peronistas' bilious tone. "Perón, our leader," chants Lux 45. "Juan Domingo Gunboat." corrects the loyal radio, recalling the dictator's undignified exit aboard a Paraguayan warship...
...1930s, when German and French steel plants were laying off workers, Röchling held its full labor force by falling back on reserves, developing new, cost-cutting production techniques. Playing on popular sympathy to achieve political leadership, Hermann Röchling cried for Anschluss with the German Fatherland. In 1935 the Saarlanders voted overwhelmingly to join Germany...
During the years that followed, many a former German in the land of General Bolle came to prefer his benevolent rule to that of the fatherland. But great nations must follow their own great destinies regardless of personal preferences, and last week, with the scratch of a pen in Brussels, the kingdom of General Bolle was signed out of existence...
...When I was ten I was told that my beloved brother Lech was killed in the Warsaw uprising for a falsehood. When I was ten I ceased to believe in the hitherto sacred word Fatherland. When I was 15 I ceased to believe in God. God had proved to be an ally of the murderers of Lech. For long hours I knelt in a dark, empty church. The day finally came when the cross became to me only a piece of wood...