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...American troops in Germany, about 160,000 strong, were in the field last week. In "Operation Combine," the largest postwar U.S. maneuvers in Europe, the Seventh Army was testing the defense of the dangerous 85-mile front where the border of the Soviet zone swings west toward Frankfurt...
Higgins took a look at another group of G.I.s and clucked her tongue. She wrote from Frankfurt that some soldiers in the U.S. occupation forces are brawling, raucous boors who whistle and shout "Kommen Sie her" from street corners at every passing fraulein. Such carryings-on may have been understandable right after the war, wrote Correspondent Higgins, but now it is inexcusable, and hardly the way to make friends and influence the Germans against the Reds...
...Times: Miss Higgins had tied a 15-in. column "of nothing to a nubbin of something that may or may not have happened and cabled it off at press rates just in time to catch the first whisky sour at the Carlton bar . .. We spent a month recently in Frankfurt and other parts of Germany. We must confess that not once did we hear a soldier shout 'Kommen Sie her'. . . Yet Miss Higgins, pausing briefly in her flight to elsewhere, is right in the thick of things...
...these defects are no longer dominant in German thinking. "We've stopped remembering how poor we were only five years ago," said a Frankfurt clerk. "Now we look ahead...
Postgraduate Work. In Frankfurt, West Germany, Police Chief Willi Klapproth, who spent three months last year studying U.S. police methods at State Department expense, was charged with bribery, perjury and accepting kickbacks...