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...French were more impressed with Ike's plan as propaganda than as practicality, they had far less patience with Eden's notion of practicality. They pointed out sharply that the last experiment in demilitarized zones was the Rhineland; when Hitler marched back in, neither Britain nor France mustered the courage to oppose him. The French wanted no such tempting vacuums in the center of Europe...
Critics often accuse Konrad Adenauer of being content with a small Germany based on his own Catholic Rhineland, plus Bavaria. Well aware of this sentiment, Adenauer told "the millions of Germans who are forced to live separated from us, without freedom and without justice [that] you can always rely on us, because together with the free world, we will not rest until . . . you live peacefully united with us in one state...
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...
...Shot of Schnapps. Old timers could recall Hoppegarten in its heyday, the white grandstands looming above the green of the track, the white Rhineland gravel on the paths, the bright flags from all of Europe. Hulking Uhlans and tall, trim Hussars marched with their ladies between training ovals, stopped now and then for champagne or a quick shot of schnapps. Great horses from the royal Graditz stables raced against some of the finest thoroughbreds in the world in those good days before World...
...cellar), his will to work gone sour. He leaves his wife and remaining children because there is literally no room for him in their miserable one-room apartment. But after 15 years of marriage, Fred and Kate Bogner have become a habit with each other. Against a backdrop of Rhineland prosperity, symbolized by a convention of German druggists, Fred borrows enough money to rent a cheap hotel room so that he and his wife can meet without the children seeing or the neighbors listening...