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...streets of Frankfurt last week, black, red and gold tricolors whipped in the wind. They meant nothing to some people. "What a waste of cloth," said one old Hausfrau. "Think of the dresses all those flags could make...
...thousands of Germans last week remembered the tricolors as the flag of Germany's first parliament, which had met in the Pauls-Kirche just 100 years ago. The Frankfurt Assembly had died young, succumbing to the "unity" of Berlin and Bismarck. Last week those who remembered those lost beginnings gathered at battered old St. Paul...
Runner from the East. Inside the church, Frankfurt's mayor received relay runners with greetings from all parts of occupied Germany. One had come all the way from Berlin, but he was not even out of breath. The Russians had forbidden him to run through the streets in their sector; so he had taken the subway to the airport and flown the rest...
...FRANKFURT, German Pastor Martin Niemoller elaborated on his recent stand against denazification laws (TIME, Feb. 16). Only the churches could do such a job, he said: "A deep ideological change can come about only through the Gospel and the grace of the Holy Spirit. You cannot change an ideology by laws." In the hands of the courts, he said, the whole process has become a legalistic mechanism which promotes self-righteousness and "prevents the teachings of the Gospel on guilt and forgiveness from sinking into the minds of the Germans...
...elect local officials. Principal results: 1) the Communists, who had made the most active campaign, lost even more ground, getting only 2.8% of the Bavarian total, and 7.9% in Hesse; 2) the center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right as I could get." Said a Wiesbaden Hausfrau: "We are fed up with socialization. We know that it means bureaucracy. Our reconstruction would have moved...