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Hard on the heels of the scare story that the U.S. was invading Germany with the Colorado beetle, the Communists spread another fantastic tale: the "Amis" (Americans) had mined the Rhine's big Lorelei rock†so that they could blow it into the river, creating a dam which they could later break to flood the flat lower Rhineland. Last week the Communists followed through with a singing commercial over Berlin's Red radio station...
...plus aggressive patrolling. When the Bulge was erased, Walker was thirsty for action-and he got it. In a roaring campaign he cleaned up the Saar-Moselle triangle, seizing the key German stronghold of Trier, then took a leading part in the Third Army's thrust to the Rhine north of Coblenz and slashing envelopment of the Palatinate...
...such windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
Last week nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...
...German industrial throttle. Heretofore, she has put her trust in one-sided plans like the Allied Ruhr Control Authority and her fifty-year lease on Saar coal mines. But the Ruhr control has been honored more in the breach than in the observance, and it is the Rhine and the Ruhr, not the Saar, which are the keys to German industrial might...