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Many responsible Frenchmen applaud this idea. U.S. aid, they say, merely postpones decisions that France must make herself. Yet a sudden stoppage of U.S. assistance could easily jeopardize the huge U.S. military investment in French bases and supply depots, stretching from the Channel to the Rhine. U.S. aid will probably be cut gradually, but cut it will...
...Aunt Edwina, is reportedly well aware that his kinship may now become more hindrance than help. But he remains a Battenberg, and so does his son, the next King of England. In 100 years, the blood of the Battenbergs has risen from obscurity on the banks of the Rhine to the threshold of the highest throneroom on earth...
Europe's moneymen, like its governments, have seldom been respecters of international frontiers. Some of the wealthiest shook hands across the Rhine last week in an $1 8 million deal that gave control of one of the Ruhr's biggest coal combines to France's biggest steelmaker...
When he was in Germany, Lubar was able to rent an ancient mansion on the Rhine, overlooking both the river and the four tracks of the main rail line under his bedroom window. The chief disadvantage was the lack of a private entrance. The house was quiet when the lease had been signed, and Lubar assumed that only the landlord and his wife lived on the top floor. But when he moved in, the house suddenly teemed with the landlord's six children, running up & down the stairs and through the apartment vestibule. Because of the bleakness...
...story of transfer No. 7 dates from 1940, when the Nazis occupied Alsace-Lorraine and decided, now that both sides of the Rhine were theirs, to include traditionally German Kehl as part of Strasbourg, which is on the west side of the Rhine. When the Germans retreated, the French moved in, cheerfully accepting the Nazi consolidation. They ordered Kehl's 12,000 Germans, who had already been evacuated by the Nazis, to stay out so that Frenchmen in bombed-out Strasbourg could live in Kehl. At first the French strung barbed wire around Kehl and made...