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...major party leaders tempered their tone. Socialist Kurt Schumacher expressed "appreciation that the Allies, especially the Anglo-Saxons, have made serious efforts to help Germany." Socialists, Christian Democrats and Free Democrats agreed that Allied troops and security agencies should stay to prevent Russian aggression, but asked that Allied controls over German affairs be abandoned...
Germans took their first major free election since 1933 with a mixed sense of duty and fatalism. In Fechenheim, near Frankfurt, a worn-looking war widow puzzled over her ballot. An election official told an American bystander: "Under Hitler, the choice was simpler-each ballot had a big Ja and small Nein." A young man said: "The trouble is we do not really know what we are voting for. All the politicians talk about is what is wrong with the other parties and with the Allies. No one tells us how his party can end unemployment...
...Need for Luck. The group that gained most was the Free Democratic Party, economically to the right of the Christian Democrats and called the "Bankers' Party" by the Socialists; the Free Democrats got 52 seats, trebling their best showing in earlier local contests. The extreme right-wing Deutsche Partei and the hotheaded Bavarian separatist Bayernpartei polled 17 seats each; local and splinter groups, mostly right-wing, gained 32 seats between them. The Communists were soundly beaten (6% of the total vote, 15 seats...
Konrad Adenauer would be the new German Republic's first Chancellor. He will probably form a government next month in coalition with the Free Democrats; whether the Socialists would enter the coalition remained doubtful. As he viewed his victory Adenauer might feel some discomfort in the fact that just 30 years ago Germany launched another hopeful democratic experiment in the ill-fated Weimar Republic. U.S. occupation officers, pleased by the election's outcome, wished Adenauer luck; he would need...
Blue Neon Sign. The Communist-Socialist coalition, which has ruled San Marino since 1945, has kept the voters happy and free of worry about Satan by devoting one-third of its budget to WPA-style public works. This year, with its credit exhausted and the budget at a record 530 million lire ($923,500), the government desperately needed money to meet a new 200 million lire deficit...