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Less than five years ago, oblivion loomed for West Germany's proud old Henschel Works. Founded in 1810 as a family machine shop, Henschel had long ranked as Europe's biggest producer of railroad locomotives and one of the Continent's major truck builders. But in the years following World War II, the company's family management stubbornly continued to concentrate on steam locomotives while Europe's railroads clamored for diesels and electrics. By 1958 Henschel was losing $2,000,000 a year, and creditors were beginning to encircle its huge new plant...
...armament orders. Fritz Berg, president of the Federation of German Industry, said "Never again." But in a speech a month ago, he changed his tune: "We see no reason why military contracts should be handed to foreign firms when German industry can handle them just as well." The big Henschel locomotive and truck-building firm has just contracted to make tanks, already manufactures Hispano-Suiza armored troop carriers under license. In fact, close to half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once huge aircraft industry has been pulled together into two big "North" and "South" industrial...
...offensive has not discouraged West Germany's own drive to the East. Partly because of the poor quality of 30 locomotives which Nasser bought from Communist Hungary two years ago, partly by agreeing to accept some of the price in cotton instead of cash, West Germany's Henschel Works fortnight ago snatched an Egyptian State Railways order for 108 diesel-electric locomotives away from both Russian and U.S. bidders. And in the Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial influence and intelligence services in a single network...
Even before the final vote was taken, 1,000 workers walked out of the Henschel engineering plant to parade the streets in protest. A delegation from the Council of Protestant Churches called on Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in an effort to persuade him to change his stand. Later, 2,500 cheering partisans jammed into Frankfurt's Kongresshalle to hear Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer call for unrelenting opposition on a nationwide basis. "The Bundestag has decided!" he cried. "But it is not too late. We must...
...Jehovah's Witnesses' world headquarters in Brooklyn, that was an old, old story. Said Milton G. Henschel, one of its top directors: "For years our missionaries have been persecuted wherever there were dictators . . . Our people were among the first thrown into Hitler concentration camps. We are confident that Almighty God will protect our people wherever they are, and that they will continue to preach the Gospel...