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During World War II, Rochling bossed Lorraine's iron and steel production plus Saarland industry. At war's end, an Allied court found Hermann Röchling guilty of waging aggressive war, the first industrialist so convicted, jailed him for two years. After Hermann's death at 83 last year, administration of the family empire fell to his nephew Ernst Röchling, 66, who in 1949 had been sentenced to five years behind French barbed wire...
...Chancellor startled Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak by asking his help in winning West Germany permission from the Western European Union to arm the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. A few days later, during a twelve-hour session to settle the terms for the return of the rich Saarland to West Germany next year, Adenauer broached his atomic-weapons scheme to French Premier Guy Mollet. Mollet. obviously forewarned. sidestepped. But the question was still there to be answered: Shall renascent West Germany be allowed to have nuclear arms? Spaak politely refused...
After this blunt reference to recent statements by German leaders in the dispute with France over the Saarland (TIME, Feb. 6), McCloy said: "Agitation of foreign issues, however tempting, cannot distract attention from vital domestic issues and from the pressing need for domestic reforms...
...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...