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Winston Churchill's trip home to get the bad news gave Harry Truman a respite from Potsdam conferences. One day last week he climbed into a plane and flew to Frankfurt am Main to pay a call on General Dwight Eisenhower, who took him for a 100-mile Rhine Valley tour...
...Frankfurt, is nonetheless enough to employ a great many Berliners in the building trades for years. The Berliner Zeitung estimates it will take 16 years to haul away the capital's rubble, 20 years and two billion dollars to replace all the destroyed homes. But there is no question that Berlin will survive, as a city and as the capital of Germany...
...minute past midnight, July 14, the most successful military staff alliance in European history-SHAEF-was formally dissolved at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Said SHAEF's Boss Dwight David Eisenhower to his British and American officers: "It is my fervent hope and prayer that the unparalleled unity . . . will . . . point the way to a permanent and lasting peace...
Eisenhower's red-letter day in London was only one day in the week's outpouring of honors. Two days before, Soviet Russia had sent Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov to Frankfurt am Main to present Ike with the top Soviet military decoration...
Virtually all German plants were closed up tight when the Allies marched in. Now the Group Control Council in Frankfurt is desperately struggling with the Protean problem of getting the German industrial machine turning over again, but not too fast. There is a pious hope that this undestroyed industrial giant can be kept manacled. As yet, there is no plan. The Council does not yet know enough about German industry to formulate a plan...