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...British advisers might have recommended a bit more warmth of approach that afternoon, as her closed Mercedes whisked the Queen from her official residence, the Petersberg Hotel on the heights of the Siebengebirge, across the Rhine to Bonn. Clearly, the Germans were hoping for more than the genteel reserve that England expects of its Queen. The mass-circulation Bild Zeitung ran three photos of Elizabeth's glum face and begged, "Please smile more, Your Majesty...
...much to soften the traditional anti-German image of the Labor Party, and Erhard was considerably charmed. Britain's new leader returned home with a German promise to buy more British goods to help offset the sterling drain that results from maintenance of the British army on the Rhine...
...foremost soldier, who led the probing but costly Dieppe raid in 1942, got his revenge in command of the First Canadian Army on Dday, went on to smash the German hinge at Caen, then swept north along the coast through Belgium, clearing the Channel ports and storming across the Rhine into Germany; of a heart attack; in Ottawa...
Last week Wilson was in West Germany on a trip aimed at bolstering the British economy-and at improving his political image. One of the major drains on the British balance of payments is the 51,000-man British Army of the Rhine, which costs London some $200 million a year to maintain. London wanted the West Germans to shoulder more of this load themselves by "Buying British," perhaps aircraft and broadcasting equipment as well as arms...
...Wilson went on to Bonn, where he sat down with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard for an informal dinner that went on until midnight. Out of it came 1) an assurance that Erhard would look into the matter of Buying British, and 2) a book entitled A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne-a gift from Ludwig to Harold...