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...nations have been steadily drawn together since the end of World War II by such devices as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Common Market and countless little meetings among world bankers. Last week, as 130 bankers from 14 nations assembled in Vienna's baroque Palais Schwarzenberg for the annual international conference of the American Bankers Association, some major signs of discord and conflict came to the surface. Said one top U.S. economic policymaker: "There's a tendency to see the divisive factors in the Atlantic alliance as strictly political. Actually, some of the worst problems...
...Lucky One. Karl Schwarzenberg inherited a 200-acre farm near Stargard, in Pomerania, where Germans had lived since 1253. He prospered, especially during...
When the Red Army overran Pomerania, Karl Schwarzenberg lost his geese and chickens, two or three cows. In July, when the Polish military government took over, his horses and bank account were confiscated. He was given 24 hours to leave his farm. With his five children, two to 14 years old, he set out, some of his household goods piled in a hand cart, and wandered on foot for two weeks. Somewhere he was forced to leave one child in a hospital with scarlet fever...
...crossed the Oder to a camp for deportees near Neuruppin in the Russian zone. Since he was an experienced farmer he received a small allotment out of a big estate broken up in the new land reform. Karl Schwarzenberg has a chance of making a new life-as a peasant. He even has a chance of finding his lost child...
Many displaced Germans had left homes which had been German as long as Karl Schwarzenberg's. Many had given up homes seized in the bloody wake of Hitler's armies. Thousands of displaced Germans sneaked across the demarcation line into the British and U.S. zones. The western Allies rounded up most of them, returned them to the Russians who could not feed and did not want them...