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...prove it, the 77-year-old Chancellor, whom Germans call simply Der Alte ("The Old One") pressed his one-man campaign into every nook & cranny of West Germany. He invaded the Socialist strongholds of Hamburg and Kiel, drawing bigger crowds than his opponents. Over and over again, he drove home one lofty theme: "See to it, my friends, that a united Europe comes to pass, that Europe remains Christian, and that through this, in peace and freedom, Germany will be reunited...
...Ludwig Zamenhof invented it, Esperanto has not become the world language he hoped for, but it has turned into a minor international cult. Today, Esperantists claim to be 1,500,000 strong, about 10,000 of them in the U.S. There are Esperanto books from La Sankta Biblio to Kiel Plaĉas Al Vi (As You Like It). Australia has made a movie in it; KLM has advertised, "Flugado ŝparas tempon kaj monon" (Flying saves time and money); and Bing Crosby sang an Esperanto song in The Road to Singapore. Last week the Thollets proved what tourists...
...received a shore-to-ship telephone call while still one day out of New York: "Vi estas bonvenita en Usono." Next day a group of enthusiastic Esperantists were at the pier. They whisked the Thollets through customs, drove them to a hotel, took them up the Empire State Building ("Kiel alta!", exclaimed the Thollets), wined & dined them for six days...
...Detroit, another group of Esperantists took them through the Ford plant ("Kiel granda!"), and in Chicago, still another group showed them the stockyards ("Kiel multaj bestoj!"). Last week, back in Manhattan after a visit with California Esperantists and a few days in Washington, D.C., the Thollets happily pronounced the U.S. "pura, agrabla, kaj automata." But above all, they said, it is amika (friendly). Added Sinjoro Thollet to a reporter: "You ought to learn Esperanto. Only three months. Tiel facila...
Operation Mainbrace, the NATO sea exercise (TIME, Sept. 22), ran into foul weather off the Norwegian coast last week. The allied fleets broke off operations in the north, headed south into Kiel Bay to interdict a simulated enemy attack across the Kiel Canal into Denmark. Since the east end of the canal is only 40 miles from the East German frontier, Mainbrace's planes were unarmed and the pilots were sternly warned to avoid Soviet territory...