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...members to pull their ambassadors out of "Franco Fascist Spain." Since then, U.S. military men have been advertising Spain as a fine and friendly beachhead on the continent, although they admit that if we are going to fight in Western Europe it will have to be on the Rhine, not the Pyrenees. A number of Southern senators have claimed that Franco is not such a bad man after all, especially since his country wants to buy their cotton. Certain elements of the American Catholic Church are also plugging for Franco--the Church in Spain is helping keep his Fascist government...
...shipping, Hamburg got most of its business not from Germany (whose trade moved largely elsewhere, such as in the Rhine River system), but from the vast hinterland of Eastern Europe, via the Elbe. As far as its old trade is concerned, Hamburg is now on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. Even if Hamburg had its old cargo to work, it lacks ships. The Potsdam Agreement took many of Germany's remaining ships as reparations...
Absolute & Lesser Musts. The guide was founded by Karl Baedeker, a book-dealer's son from Essen, Germany, who in 1827 published a thin booklet on the best ways & means of traveling along the Rhine. For the rest of his life, Baedeker traveled about Europe, by bicycle, on horseback and by coach, notebook in hand, eyes peeled for grandeur to praise or bedbugs to warn against. In time, Karl and his sons, who took over the business, were assisted by legions of conscientious observers combining the qualities of master spies and bons 'vivants. By the eve of World...
...Rhine Claims "Sixth Sense" Exists...
...Rhine contended that he had compiled "significant statistical evidence" to support belief in a "sixth sense" that supplies to the brain information now attributed to "hunch" or "intuition...