Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...
...Seized uranium mines in the Black Forest. 2. Refused to release the last 100,000 German prisoners of war. 3. Signed a 50-year lease on the Saar coal mines. 4. Seized the Ruhr. 5. Drafted French Zone workers for work in French munitions plants...
...Broader Community." These industries now operate under precisely the kind of artificial conditions which ECA's Paul Hoffman and other U.S. preachers of "integration" want abolished. The Germans sell their Ruhr coal to French steelmakers at a price up to 30% higher than the coal price for domestic German buyers. The French sell their Lorraine iron ore to German steelmakers at far higher prices than they charge at home. Tariffs, import quotas and government subsidies further protect the French steel industry from competition by lower-priced German steel, keep prices high, markets divided and output lower than it should...
This move represents a great change in emphasis of French efforts to keep a hand on the German industrial throttle. Heretofore, she has put her trust in one-sided plans like the Allied Ruhr Control Authority and her fifty-year lease on Saar coal mines. But the Ruhr control has been honored more in the breach than in the observance, and it is the Rhine and the Ruhr, not the Saar, which are the keys to German industrial might...
Married. Libeth Adenauer, 22, youngest daughter of West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Hermann Josef Werhahn, 26, son of a Ruhr banker; at Maria Laach, Germany...