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White-haired Princess Hermine, 59, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, did some reminiscing. "The Kaiser," she recalled, "was a wonderful man . . . very sad about the [second] war, and detested and distrusted Hitler." She herself was living in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Russian zone. She had "lost everything" except two tables and a chair, but she is still addressed by close friends as "Your Majesty...
Communist Party posters dotted the countryside, some showing a frontier post and proclaiming "Best assurance of the Oder-Neisse border [Poland's provisional western boundary] is a vote for the Democratic Bloc...
...believe that certain well-meaning people are opposed to the installation of an international authority in the Ruhr because they see therein a possibility of bringing Russia into the West. 'The Russians are already on the Oder and on the Spree,' one of my British friends said to me the other day, 'Why do you need to bring them also on the Rhine?' "My reply is that without international control of the Ruhr there is no German disarmament. It is equally clear that everything which concerns German dis armament directly interests Russia...
...jealous governments had released some 60 million men. (The Americans chafed noisily at demobilization delays, and returned horrified by the scarcity of water closets and breakfast foods beyond the oceans; the Russians returned discontented at the remembrance of fine houses, fabulous watches, and women with soft hands across the Oder, the Danube...
...withdraw to the Oder and let eastern Germany rot; or 3) accept the Byrnes invitation to join in a united German economy, perhaps by February. By then the Russians may present their Allies with 20 million hungry eastern Germans almost stripped of productive machinery-a nightmarish economic liability which could haunt Europe for many years to come...