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...fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days of 1947. Those in favor of Germany are at a legal disadvantage: only candidates known to approve the Francophile government will be allowed on the ballot. But German propagandists, dramatizing themselves as the "repressed German underground," are infiltrating Saarbrücken, urging the German-speaking Saarlanders to protest the French "police state" by casting blank ballots. They got a welcome assist from the German Bundestag in Bonn, which cheered through a resolution declaring the Saar election illegal...
...sights and incidents along 2,000 miles of Europe's streets and roads, perhaps the most revealing was in a square in Metz where, about midnight, two Americans in a jeep paused to ask a bearded old man the road to Saarbrücken. He said he did not speak French. Nor German either. He was a Russian. One American who spoke Russian repeated the question. The old man could not help. He had fled Russia in 1920, had lived in Poland till 1939. When the Germans took it, he went to Germany. Later he drifted into France...
Rundstedt's Move. In the south, General Patton's Third Army was hurling savage diversionary attacks between Bitburg and Prum, and against Trier in the Moselle Valley. General Patch's Seventh Army was attacking Forbach and Saarbrücken. In the north, General Crerar's First Canadian Army had taken Goch, and was throwing in an armored attack behind a five-hour artillery barrage. Between Crerar and Simpson, the British Second Army was waiting to jump off. Field Marshal von Rundstedt could hardly afford to weaken any of these sectors to strengthen the Cologne plain...
...There were no military objectives in the region worth a really major effort, even if Rundstedt could spare the reserves to make one. It seemed more probable that the German was trying to draw off more strength from the Third Army's front between the Luxembourg border and Saarbrücken...
...enemy the Saarland was now no longer an arsenal, but a fortress to be held at whatever cost. Saarbrücken, the ''Little Pittsburgh,"* was apparently to be another Aachen, a building-to-building battleground. Saarlautern, the area's second city, was already a flaming ruin-the target for more than 6,000 German shells, because Major General Harry L. Twaddle's 95th Division had seized its chief bridge intact. In Dillingen, where Patton's men had overrun a major steel plant, the Americans were able to advance only a few hundred yards in five...