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Since the end of World War II, German veterans have been forbidden by the Allies to wear the "ornaments of war." Last week the West German government, which soon expects to raise twelve German divisions for the defense of Western Europe, proposed that the ex-soldiers should shine up their Iron Crosses and pin them on again. But be sure to remove the tiny metal swastikas that decorate all Iron Crosses issued in World War II, said the Bonn government; Nazi emblems are still verboten...
...greatest player of the West-a tough little man full of brilliant ideas." Then Smyslov went back to Moscow, back into training for Champion Botvinnik, who no longer has to worry about radio blare and cigar smoke. In Russia, during chess matches, smoke and talk are forbidden...
...determined to pay him tribute. They queued up hour after hour to visit his house, decked his bust with flowers, trudged through rain and mud to place wreaths on his tomb. Finally they gathered in the great Ceremonial Hall, and as each one rose to congratulate the university, the forbidden name seemed to pop up, again and again and again. At the end of the ceremony, Rector Pedro Lain Entralgo of the University of Madrid launched into an impassioned eulogy of "one of the Spanish masters who will live forever, long after many generations have died...
Since World War II, the industrialists who built Hitler's Luftwaffe have kept a prudent silence. Beset by denazification tribunals, forbidden by the occupation to make plans, the aircraft manufacturers switched their lines to make a living: Messerschmitt turned to midget automobiles; Dornier fell back upon his construction interests in Spain and Switzerland; Heinkel put out machine tools and motor scooters from his Stuttgart factory. Two months ago, they formed an "Aero Union" to handle orders that might be coming from NATO, but thanks to the ban, and to French and British opposition to German rearmament, no orders came...
Finances constitute the major drawback. Harkness estimates a conservative $140 minimum which includes round trip plane fare from New York. The H.A.A, has forbidden organized canvassing for funds, but Munro and lacrosse manager William C. B. Young '55 are investigating possible sources of revenue...