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...soon settled the immediate Communist threat by marching shock troops into Berlin. When Adolf Hitler and his beer-hall fanatics flared up in their 1923 Putsch, the army ground it out in the Munich gutters. Later the officer corps began to think it could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung from meat-hooks, and their fellow officers could not lift...
...uneasy about her reception. "I know what people think they know," she said. "Seventy-five percent of the audience is for me; the other 25 percent wishes I were dead." But there was no demonstration, no picket line; nobody asked her about the old days in the Third Reich. Her managers were scheduling her for a return visit to the U.S. next fall for a two-month tour...
...German Reich Party...
...with some new arrangement which will join the strength of Germany to the Western allies through NATO." ¶ Germany is welcome to "a place among the great powers of the world," but, "as one a large part of whose life has been spent in conducting war against [the Reich]," Sir Winston urged the Bonn government to remember the famous maxim: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Presumably, he was advising Bonn to watch out for its domestic foes. ¶ The U.S. got a big Churchillian bouquet, and a homily on its past mistakes. "Had the U.S. taken before...
...right to govern Germany for four more years. In district after district, the Socialists lost strength and Adenauer's C.D.U. gained. Every one of the Communists' 14 seats in the Bundestag-including that of Party Boss Max Reimann-was jerked away from them. The neo-Nazi German Reich Party did even worse than the Communists...