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Seven times in 300 years the German river port of Kehl on the Rhine has fallen into French hands, an incidental prize in the long series of wars between Germans and French. Last week, for the seventh time, the French handed Kehl back to the Germans...
...Civic Theater of Mannheim on the Rhine, in the U.S. zone of Germany, was enjoying a fine season until the time came to rehearse the next play in the repertory: Arthur Koestler's powerfully anti-Communist Darkness at Noon...
Germans first got stirred up over the recruiters last November, when German border guards were roughly handled by French gendarmes as they tried to stop a bus load of legion recruits crossing from Germany into France (others are ferried across the Rhine by night, or flown over by air ferry). Last week the West German Bundestag voted to jail anyone "recruiting or attempting to recruit" Germans for service in a foreign army outside Germany. The vote was unanimous, a rare event in the Bundestag. The only hitch is that the law will apply only to Germans, for the French under...
Last week headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine completed the story. The Marquess of Blandford, it announced, has resigned his commission in the Life Guards. "Wolfenbüttel is no place for a young couple to live," he explained. "Too provincial...
Then it happened. One night in December 405, the Rhine froze, and a German raiding party crossed. They found only shadow garrisons against them; the Legions had been called back to Italy to resist Alaric. The word spread, and by spring the unopposed German tribes had overrun eastern Gaul and were pouring west to the sea and south to the Pyrenees. Britain was cut off from Rome-and the Dark Ages were approaching on the double. But these matters were hard to sense fully in misty Britain. All that seemed perfectly clear to some of Felix's bolder friends...