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Europe's moneymen, like its governments, have seldom been respecters of international frontiers. Some of the wealthiest shook hands across the Rhine last week in an $1 8 million deal that gave control of one of the Ruhr's biggest coal combines to France's biggest steelmaker...
...sseldorf, 300 miles to the northwest, modern-minded churchmen of the Ruhr were having better luck with their city's sidewalk architects. To replace the bombed-out St. Rochus Roman Catholic Church, a young Luftwaffe veteran named Paul Schneider-Esleben has designed a building in the form of a three-leaf clover (representing the Trinity). The new structure will be connected to the old bell tower by a path which was once the main aisle of St. Rochus, using the twelve aisle columns (representing the twelve Apostles) as a border...
...country into an Eastern zone and a Western. The culture of each was built and nurtured on religious traditions. The smaller of the Germanys, in the Rhineland and Bavaria, was and is largely Roman Catholic and bourgeois, the Germany of Munich, the old Rhenish bishoprics and the industrial Ruhr. This is the Germany of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. It thinks back, with some nostalgia, to the European and Catholic unity of the Holy Roman Empire. Catholic voters, a decisive force through history's accidents in the new Federal German Republic, have long had a tendency to look westward...
...insurance." This is the German word for forehanded protection against occupation by the Russians, if it should come. There are many varieties of Rückversicherung: wealthy Hamburg businessmen who keep yachts fueled and supplied for quick getaways; non-Communist Germans who carry Communist Party cards just in case; Ruhr industrialists who protect their eastern plants by buying expensive advertising in Communist newspapers...
Monnet's Europe Inc. hopes to escape from the "jungle of restrictions"-tariffs, quotas, production subsidies, price fixing and discriminatory freight rates-that has choked Europe's enterprise for centuries. Eventually, Italian householders should be able to buy Ruhr coal as easily-and almost as cheaply-as if it were mined in their own backyard; Dutch businessmen will get competitive bids from French and German, as well as Dutch, manufacturers. Europe's industrialists, glows Monnet, already "are discovering the big market. They think it is wonderful...