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...with second quarterback Dick Boyle recuperating from an injury and comparatively ineffective. The majority of the quarterbacking was done by Pete Vann, a hard-passing freshman. And there is little doubt that ends like Weaver and Sisson made Vann look better than he actually was. Another freshman, fullback Dick Reich, developed as the workhorse of the Pointers...
...Reds-at little expense to themselves-had again stirred up patriotic dreams of One Reich. West Germans hesitate to cut all ties with East Germany in favor of a military alliance with the West. Adenauer's chief domestic opponent, one-armed, one-legged Kurt Schumacher, whose Social Democrats control one-third of the seats in the Bundestag, called on "all farsighted [Germans] to reject these plans, including the military wishes of the allies." To the Allied High Commissioners, Adenauer complained that all this united Germany talk made it necessary for him to get more lenient terms from them...
...Restitution of property losses to Jews still left in West Germany (22,000 out of a prewar Reich total of 550,000) has been going on since 1947. In the U.S. and French zones, about half of the claims are settled; in the British zone the percentage of settlement is much lower...
...Nationalism" is an equally irrelevant term. Since their destruction and partition in 1945, the "Reich" and the "nation" have simply not been realities to the Germans. The very meager successes of the noisy "nationalist" parties signify more protest against existing economic inadequacies than passion for a political ideal...
Died. Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst von Hohenzollern, 69, eldest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Pétain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria...