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Their interest was more than passing. TIME, to them, is one of their principal weapons for dealing with the flood of Communist propaganda that sweeps into their home areas from Eastern Germany - and points farther east. In the North Rhine-Westphalia area alone, reported Hans Joachim Oertel of Düseldorf, 256 Communist journals are distributed. TIME, he found, was his best rebuttal to their propaganda...
...White House with the officers and men who exactly ten years before had participated in the heroic capture of the Rhine bridge at Remagen, Germany, and handed out 15 scrolls designating them as members of the "Society of the Remagen Bridgehead...
...debate dawned cold, with fine driving snow whipping off the Rhine into the capital city of Bonn. The Communists were early in action, staging "a fighting day for the whole nation" in the cities of the Eastern zone. A delegation of "East German mothers" arrived in Bonn and joined a crowd of Ruhr rowdies who paraded around chanting, "Adenauer is following in Hitler's footsteps-throw him out." The Socialist trade unions of Munich turned out 25,000 members carrying banners with the slogan: "We don't want to die for dollars or rubles...
Except for Psychologist J. B. Rhine (extrasensory perception), few of Duke's professors have achieved popular fame. Yet, on almost any academic or Government committee, there is apt to be at least one faculty representative from Duke. Economist Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations...
Swollen like the Seine on the overflow of unseasonable rains and winter thaws, other European rivers as well were on the rampage. At Bonn, Germany's normally sedate Rhine River was twice its usual girth, marooning U.S. High Commissioner Conant in his home. Whooping with glee, Rhineland children cruised their family basements in washtubs, while resigned elders watched the water level, carefully marked on the stained walls of riverside inns, climb higher than it had since...