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Under the watchful eyes of General Eisenhower, "Redland" aggressors and "Blueland" defenders battled each other across a 60-mile line stretching from Bremen to Hamburg. The cast in the big eight-day war play: 150,000 NATO troops. It was "Operation Counterthrust" -the largest allied maneuver since the war, and the first major test of how seven Atlantic Pact armies could work together...
...people of western Germany have turned a big corner. Six months ago, stagnation was still everywhere; today, from the Elbe to the Rhine, everything is in motion. Ponderous blocks of new building bulk cleanly amid the jagged skylines. In Hamburg, Frankfurt and Essen, brick red factory construction and flashy white housing projects chase the gloom of rubble grey. The ruins no longer depress, but act as a stimulant to German energy. A Hamburg shipping magnate curtly told me why: "If I don't get something done, I'll go crazy. That's sure. A war may take...
...seven men and two women met as D.P.s in Hamburg at the end of World War II, organized a school of Russian arts & crafts to fill their idle hours. Soon they had learned enough about the ancient art of icon-painting to fill commissions for Greek Orthodox churches in Britain, France and Belgium...
...Hamburg captains dressed their ships in gay signal flags, beaming teachers gave school kids the day off. The cause for rejoicing was a letter from the Allied High Commission which lifted several restrictions on shipbuilding. German ships up to last week could not be larger than 7,200 tons or faster than 12 knots. Now Germans can have ships as big and as fast as they want, although a limit on overall tonnage remains. (Within two days North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika ordered 14 new 16-knot vessels...
...Hamburg. No one who has observed Acheson under the attacks of his critics and the stresses of his job during the past year can fail to admire his steady, cold-steel nerve. He has held himself aloof from the brawling. His staff know him as calm, sane, considerate. He has generally kept his sense of humor in a turbulent world, sometimes opens a window on a frosty...