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...after another the gleaming staff cars and Volkswagen rolled up to the dirty, grey, four-story building in Frankfurt. Upstairs on the top floor, across the worn leather top of a huge, oval table, the commanders of the U.S. and British occupation zones faced Western Germany's leading political figures. Then came the long-expected announcement...
...Frankfurt Betrayal of German Unity," screamed one Russian zone paper. "A Black Day for Germany," said another. In Berlin, plans were laid for a meeting of the Soviet-controlled All German People...
Congress to consider countermeasures. The U.S. and British commanders were prepared for the charges. "Frankfurt," said General Clay, "definitely will not be a Western German capital. It will merely be the seat of a strengthened economic and financial administration...
...Manhattan hall bedroom, Rolf Berndt puzzled over the strange cable: "Send $150. See Gitte soon, (signed) Siedentopf." Rolf was a cautious man. Says he: "I wasn't going to send money to someone I never heard of." So in the air freight office at Frankfurt, Private, Siedentopf and his fragile burden waited in vain while airport officials waved a bill for $130 freight charges. "Can't I send it C.O.D.?" asked the G.I. The answer was no. "Oh, well, then just store it. I'll be back." Into the storeroom went the box. After an uncomfortable...
...Thank God she's alive," said Rolf Berndt when someone told him that Gitte would almost certainly have frozen to death in the unheated freight compartment of a Stratoliner. Sighed an airline official in Frankfurt: "Just say that I'd like to have some woman love me enough to fly to New York in that little...