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What makes Düsseldorf the nation's No. 1 securities market is partly its position as capital of West Germany's biggest and most prosperous state, ringed by expanding coal and steel industries in the Rhine-Ruhr area. But mainly Düsseldorf-and its sister exchanges-owe the new boom to the insistent demands of West Germany's industry for new expansion capital...
...Black Forest mountain retreat last week. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stared without pleasure at his beloved Rhine, stalked through the forest side by side with his priest son Paul in somber silence. For the first time since he began to vacation at Bühlerhöhe six years ago, its charms failed to soothe the 80-year-old Chancellor's troubled spirits. "He talks of many things," said an intimate. "First he talks of the Radford plan. Then he talks of the weather. Then he talks of the Radford plan. Then he talks about food...
...world." Furthermore, said Lloyd, "there is no real substance in the idea that a state suffers infringement of its sovereignty by allowing an international authority to perform certain functions in its territory." He cited the examples of the international commissions that already run such international rivers as the Rhine and the Danube...
...Ministry officials persuaded flinty old West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to be obliging to Nehru, though the Chancellor scorns Nehru's way of thinking. Adenauer even went so far as to break his no-Sunday-engagements rule in order to take Nehru on a cruise up the castled Rhine. They met three times for four hours, and both stubborn men had the honesty not to feign a friendship they did not feel. When newsmen asked the Indian Prime Minister whether he accepted Bonn as the only legitimate German government, he made a characteristically Delphic response: "You want...
Unfortunately, A House on the Rhine is termite-ridden with bygone clichés ("Don't bring her into this vile business. She's made of other clay"). But Author Faviell's dramatic documentation of the lawless legacy of the war and "the clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted...