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Just when it looked as if the French and Germans might forget some of their differences in the common peril, an ancient trouble spot set them snarling at each other. The spot: the smoky Saar basin, a tiny wedge of the Rhine valley on the Franco-German frontier. Barely larger (743 sq. mi.) than Allegheny County, Pa., though its population (900,000) is the densest in Europe, the Saar has both strategic position and rich mineral resources, and it has been a tug-of-war ground for centuries...
...Lillian Hellman's greatest play. "The Autumn Garden" is beyond doubt Miss Hellman's masterpiece in her own peculiar genre of subtle characterization through complex interweaving of personalities; as good theatre, however, weaknesses in its very conception prevent it from even approaching "The Little Foxes" or "Watch on the Rhine...
...plot revolves around three members of an American intelligence team out to obtain information on German troop movements behind the Rhine. Leader of the team is an American captain. He has no political convictions. He spies because he's ordered to. Tiger, the second agent, is a German POW who has switched sides for better pay. But the central figure is "Happy," a sad-eyed, 19 year old medic, played by Austrian Oskar Werner. He becomes a traitor because he believes in "a life where people are free...
Westchester-on-the-Rhine. Striking proof of Germany's resurgence is to be found in the university town of Bonn (pop. 124,000), on the banks of the Rhine 15 miles south of Cologne. It lies in the British zone, but like Washington, D.C., it is a neutral enclave, which West Germans have made their capital. In recognition of this, the U.S. is now moving out of its occupation headquarters in Frankfurt (in the unbombed I. G. Farben office building), to make its new GHQ in Bonn. This move is symbolic of Bonn's status as the newest...
...make the move, the U.S. has spent nearly $25 million to build a Westchester-on-the-Rhine on several acres of apple orchards and woodland in Bad Godesberg, a suburb on the southern edge of Bonn. For HICOG headquarters, there is a seven-section concrete and glass structure with a 1,500-seat cafeteria and a 100,000-volume library. Four miles away stands a cluster of new two-story apartment houses, 458 apartments in all, each furnished down to the last curtain, dessert spoon and teacup. They range from tasteful bedroom, living room, kitchen combinations for bachelors to four...