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Academy Theater (Wed. 10 p.m.. CBS). Paul Lukas in Lillian Hellman's prize winning Watch on the Rhine...
...swift grey waters of the Rhine last week divided the realm of European Communism. The Kremlin had faced a choice between vanquished Germany and victorious, allied France. With icy calm, it had chosen Germany...
...would not let them have an advance on the wonderful future he had promised. Said one Berlin office worker: "If Molotov is really interested in Germany, I don't understand his refusal to drop zonal frontiers." But most of the press on the right (German) bank of the Rhine completely ignored this purposeful Molotov paradox and played up Russia as Germany's best friend. Typical sample: the Liberal Democratic Party's Der Morgen headlined: "What Molotov demands for Germany" as contrasted with what the Western powers "demand from Germany." Said a German official in the Russian zone...
Left Bank. On the left bank of the Rhine, dismay and confusion marched in Communism's ranks. Thorez & comrades, who had campaigned, along with the rest of France, for a Ruhr detached from Germany, found themselves suddenly in clear opposition to Russia. Said one member of the French Politbureau: " 'It never rains but it pours' was not a proverb invented by Karl Marx, but as far as we are concerned, it might as well have been. After the constitutional rebuff, the near defeat at the elections, last week's slapping down in the Chamber...
...lines of William Shakespeare's might well describe what happens when the Soviet Union has enough atomic bombs, and blows Western democracy to hell. Bullitt, who ended the war a major in the French Army, was struck by a car when walking along an icy road beside the Rhine in January 1945, has since spent most of his time recovering from a back injury and writing this book...