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...investigation of the Eder case uncovered more guilt than Abel's and Fran-key's. Their battalion, the 796th Military Police, has 600 men. More than 100 knew about the kidnaping; 20 of them had been approached by those who wanted Eder kidnaped. None reported the proposition or the kidnaping to U.S. authorities. The 796th has many black-marketeers, some, called the "three-to-two boys," who lend money on a basis of $300 returned for every $200 advanced. Three-quarters of the MPs in the battalion are under 21, and most of them have been subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Kidnaping, C.O.D. | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...World?" Last week Germans were aroused and enraged by a report that France had signed with the French-run Saar government a so-year lease of the Saar coal mines. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked French High Commissioner Andre Frangois-Poncet for a copy of the agreement. François-Poncet obliged. Later Adenauer called the French officials for "clarification" of some points in the document. François-Poncet obliged again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Saar Again | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

President suspended the session and set off the sirens to clear the galleries, the entire Communist body swarmed around the rostrum. Center and right Deputies tried to leave the chamber, but the Communists hemmed them in, punching and kicking. A former M.R.P. minister, Fran-gois de Menthon, was knocked down, trampled and, minus two teeth, was taken to a hospital. The Communists stayed in the chamber all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Heeding the Master | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...French came back stridently. Their High Commissioner for Germany, Andre François-Poncet, demanded a retraction of Dehler's tirade. In Paris, a national assemblyman howled: "There is no difference between the Bonn government and the Nazis. German methods and mentality are always the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Time Out for Caterwauling | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...large obstacle to European agreement was shrewd, stubborn Vladimir Porché, director general of state-owned Radio Diffusion Française, who is determinedly plugging France's new 819-line system* as the European standard. Porché has already put up a TV transmitter in Vatican City and plans to spot TV sets in Roman theaters and public places to win friends and potential customers for France among the thronging Holy Year pilgrims. His engineers, operating on a shoestring, have developed an inexpensive relay network to carry Eiffel Tower telecasts beyond French borders. One such station is perched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: TV In Europe | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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