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...chiefs of staff first flew to Frankfurt, where they conferred with representatives of Luxembourg (military strength: two battalions) and Italy. Then they went to London, where brief staff talks with British, Norwegian and Danish military leaders were sandwiched between a reception at Buckingham Palace and an air review by 24 U.S. Superfortresses...
Thomas Mann, grey eminence of expatriate belles lettres, set an old pot aboil-ing again when he returned to his native Germany. After receiving the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize, he planned to go to Weimar, in the Russian zone, to accept a similar honor. "We who fought Naziism on German soil for twelve years," huffed the Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, "think that those who invited Thomas Mann to a public festival in Frankfurt were badly advised...
Disorganized & Leisurely. Last week Dr. Schweitzer took no part in the Goethe festival, but waited in Manhattan, working on his address and resting. Though Poet-Philosopher Goethe is one of his favorite subjects (in 1928 he received the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize*), he had not really wanted to come to the U.S. When he went from Lambarene to Giinsbach last October for a visit, he found at least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman...
Blocks of bright new stores have appeared amid the ruins of West German cities; rings of huge sausages festoon the show windows of butcher shops. Even the sidewalk vendor of frankfurters has reappeared in Frankfurt. West German industrial production stands at 87% of the 1936 level, steel output has soared to nine million tons a year. But the anniversary triumph requires a damper of caution. West Germany is beset by some alarming economic difficulties...
First Sale. Last week in Frankfurt the low comedy was taken seriously. On the block went the first Farben unit, the Kalle plant at Wiesbaden, reportedly valued at $6,000,000. It employs 2,200 and produces Cellophane, photographic papers and chemicals. The Military Government wanted to offer some 80% of the stock for sale to Germans, while 20% would be set aside for the foreigners who already owned an interest in Farben. The Military Government also announced that part of another great industrial empire, the Robert Bosch electrical equipment combine, was to be sold. It looked as if "something...