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...banks of the Rhine 15 miles south of Cologne. It lies in the British zone, but like Washington, D.C., it is a neutral enclave, which West Germans have made their capital. In recognition of this, the U.S. is now moving out of its occupation headquarters in Frankfurt (in the unbombed I. G. Farben office building), to make its new GHQ in Bonn. This move is symbolic of Bonn's status as the newest and one of the most important of world capitals...
Almost every day this month, moving vans from Frankfurt-am-Main have lumbered into Bonn. Behind them trailed the chrome-grinning cars of U.S. occupation families, loaded with children, cats and dogs, Bavarian cuckoo clocks. Some 1,000 U.S. occupation employees and dependents attached to the Office of U.S. High Commissioner for Germany-HICOG for short-have moved to the capital. In overcrowded Bonn, they will jostle beside burgeoning French and British communities...
...When a Frankfurt-New York plane put down at La Guardia Field, reporters greeted Barbara Hutton with a bit of good news: a Paris court had just granted her a French divorce from fourth husband Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, supplementing her short-order Mexican decree of last summer...
...Last week, Germany got a second: Jewish Sociologist Max Horkheimer, who was elected rector of Frankfurt's Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In 1933 the Nazis drove Horkheimer from the country, closed the famed Institute for Social Research which he had founded. This week, Rector Horkheimer, now a U.S. citizen, will have the pleasure of seeing his institute opened again...
...shortcomings in the performance of U.S. forces. Camouflage was sloppy, communication lines inadequate. Air strikes were too few, and too slow to attack when called. On the Rhein-Main Airfield observers saw cargo planes parked so close that they made inviting targets. Traffic moved placidly in daylight along the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn while, just off the road, supply trucks piled up outside the Sunset...