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Little Bonn, on the west bank of the Rhine, bustled to prepare itself as the world's newest capital. One morning last week, a black limousine stopped in front of the gleaming white, ultra-modern Teachers' College which carpenters and masons were enlarging to hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic. Out of the car stepped a tall, elderly man, in sober dark suit and high, starched collar. One or two of the workmen recognized him as he passed, and nodded gravely; he responded with a grin. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor-apparent of the Federal...
...leader of the Center (a Catholic party that was the most stable of all parties in the Weimar Republic), Adenauer was openly hostile to the Nazis from the moment they started rising to power. When Hitler was about to visit Cologne in 1933, his fanatic followers draped the great Rhine bridge with huge swastikas. Adenauer ordered his police to tear them down. Goring promptly ordered Adenauer's discharge from office and banishment from Cologne. Adenauer found asylum in a convent on an island down the Rhine...
...brewing mead in steam-heated vats at the rate of 300,000 bottles a year. The firm is already shipping some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
...Bradley, a new team of top defense officials this week went to work. To succeed Bradley as Army Chief of Staff, the President named hardy, crisp-spoken 53-year-old General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, whose string of World War II campaigns stretched from Guadalcanal to the Rhine...
Otto Abetz met Luchaire, became his friend, married Luchaire's secretary, Suzanne de Brouckere. In those days, Abetz loved France with a clean passion. The passion endured even while, on both sides of the Rhine, the foundations of rapprochement were crumbling. Hitler, backed by money from Banker von Schroeder and others, had come to power...