Word: schleswig-holstein
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...voters in Western Germany's "poor house," Schleswig-Holstein (pop. 2,700,000), last week elected a new state parliament. A brand-new party, Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten (Association of Homeless and Rightless), got 23.4% of the votes...
Western Germany's other political parties have claimed for years that the interests of the 9,200,000 refugees in Western Germany were "adequately protected" by them. Refugees thought differently. In crowded Schleswig-Holstein, where refugees constitute nearly 40% of the population, they finally organized to protest against their status as "second-class citizens." The entrance of organized refugees from the East into German politics had long been feared. Now it had arrived, and it promised to become one of the most disturbing factors in West German politics...
Which Dictatorship Was Worse? One wreck of a man slowly unfolded a story of seven years' suffering under two dictatorships. The Nazis had thrown him into Sachsenhausen in 1943 for listening to foreign broadcasts. Released in 1945, he headed for home in Schleswig-Holstein. Somewhere along the road, the Russians seized him again, sent him back to Sachsenhausen. In nine years of marriage, he had lived with his wife for only eight months. "God only knows if I'll find her," he said, "or what I'll find...
...followed the famed little red books to far corners of the earth, trying to keep their eyes at once on the great sights and on the small grey type. Last week, after a blackout of more than a decade, a brand-new Baedeker (on the West German Land Schleswig-Holstein) was again in the hands of travelers. Many a king and government had since become tourists in oblivion, but Mr. Baedeker was back in business...
Died. George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 56, King George II of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Sparta, six months after his second return to the Greek throne; of a heart attack; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS...