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Duisburg, the great inland port at the confluence of Rhine and Ruhr, had lost a third of its workers to hunger, disease and fatigue. A correspondent reported: "Four [nearby] brothels thoughtfully provided by the Nazis for [the workers'] diversion are still open, but queues are missing...
...Germany's Communist Party continued its agitation for "national unity," flatly announced that it would fight separation of the Ruhr and Rhineland from the rest of the Fatherland...
Zonal lines tripped Germany's life at every point. Occupiers and occupied were disgusted. Only the French insisted that zonal administration should not be modified until they had an answer on their proposal to internationalize the Ruhr; used their veto power in the Allied Control Council in Berlin to make their obstructionism stick...
...Three were fed up with the divergences and difficulties of zonal government. But plans for greater centralization were blocked by the French, who still cherished a hope that Germany would be permanently partitioned into several nations. Last week the Russians agreed with the French that the Ruhr area should be split off from Germany and made a separate state, but in principle the Big Three were still united against partition of the rest of the country...
...beefs, no gripes, no bitches and no regimentation-and I was a lost soul. I tried to strike up a conversation with a civilian correspondent at the Hotel Scribe, and after five minutes of talking politics, I was right back where I started -"Now when we were on the Ruhr. . . ." It was extremely discouraging...