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...Rhine is also one of the world's filthiest rivers. The crystalline waters that tumble from Alps near Reichenau, Switzerland, are choked with wastes by the time they pour into the North Sea, 820 miles away. At Basel, the Rhine picks up city sewage; the chemical industries near Mannheim dump acids, oils, phenols, ammonia, dyes, chlorine, sulphate, iron, copper, bleach, cadmium and formaldehyde into its waters; the coal mines near the confluence of the Ruhr disgorge calcium deposits and sludge; the steel mills of Cologne contribute iron dross, furnace slag, oils and fats. As a result, the Rhine...
...colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...
After five hours of speeches, and much eating and drinking, Host von Reichenau rose to speak. He offered the assembly a program: reject the European Defense Community, reunite Germany, cooperate with the East. One man alone rose in opposition. To General Kurt von Tippel-skirch, onetime corps commander on the Russian front, Reichenau's plan seemed suicidal. "We have been reproached here for lack of courage [to fight against the European Army]. I take courage to speak now even at the risk of finding no applause. A state without power never in its life will get back its rights...
Intrigued by the question of where Von Reichenau, publisher of a money-losing monthly, got the cash for his "old soldiers' private soiree," and by the Moscow echoes in his speech, Allied Intelligence agents questioned him last week. Reichenau's explanation: he had salted away $1,000 a month during his 20-year stint as a military adviser to the Chinese Nationalists. Protested Von Reichenau: "It is absurd to accuse an aristocrat of cooperating with Communists . . . As others find pleasure in theater and dancing . . . I am a collector of soldiers' opinions...
Then and Now. In 1940 it had taken Colonel General Walther von Reichenau 31 days after the breakthrough at Sedan (where a ready-made land front already existed) to capture Paris. In 1944 it had taken Bradley 23 days after the breakthrough at Coutances (where a land front had had to be created in the Normandy bridgehead) to cross the Seine, which permitted Paris to free itself...