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Here Is Hugo. In the British-occupied zones, the blow fell on German industrialists. In a sweeping move to denazify the Ruhr industries, the Control Council arrested 40 leading officials of the powerful Rhine-Westphalian coal syndicate. Biggest fish in the British net: Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, 48, son of Germany's onetime greatest financier and powerful figure in the Ruhr coal and steel industries. Said the British: "Such men represent the worst in Germany . . . never hesitated to use their vast power to support dubious political movements . . . assisted in the growth of the National Socialist Party...
...guide for MacArthur's advisers. G.I.s might not want to fraternize with Japanese men, but it was a foregone conclusion that they would find Jap children cute; as for Japanese women, they have appealed strongly to most westerners who have lived in the country. When doughfeet crossed the Rhine, they went from countries where they had enjoyed the attentions of Allied women; many of those crossing the wharves of Yokosuka would be going from miserable, womanless mid-Pacific "rocks...
...Potsdam, he said, the U.S. had proposed that four of Europe's great waterways-the Rhine, the Danube, the Kiel Canal and the Black Sea Straits-be internationalized. This was an explosive proposition. Said Harry Truman: selfish control of the waterways "had been one of the persistent causes for wars in Europe...
Winston Churchill's trip home to get the bad news gave Harry Truman a respite from Potsdam conferences. One day last week he climbed into a plane and flew to Frankfurt am Main to pay a call on General Dwight Eisenhower, who took him for a 100-mile Rhine Valley tour...
...took the first drink of his life at the first meeting of the Kommandantur. Parks explained that he, too, was a nondrinker, that his doctor allowed him only a little white wine. A few hours later a Russian soldier appeared at Parks's house with a case of Rhine wine on his back. The next day it was a case of champagne, from Gorbatov's superior, General of the Army Vassily D. Sokolovsky...