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...Communists also insist that a reunified Germany stop at the Oder-Neisse line, leaving Silesia and Pomerania in Red Poland and most of East Prussia to the Russians. Both Red Poland and East Germany have served notice that this border is final and "forever...
Blockbuster No. 2. Three nights later, Tom Dewey dropped a second and more explosive bombshell. In 1925, he charged, Harriman had made a $2,000,000 loan to a company that operated a zinc mine in Polish Silesia. When the loan turned sour, Harriman and some banking associates formed a new company, issuing $15 million in bonds to operate the mine. "Before long, the company started losing money. Then came the war, and the mines were finally nationalized, and Harriman's great promotion, the Silesian American Corp., went into the hands of the bankruptcy court." The result, added Dewey...
...Silesia, miners quit work, booed and hissed the "enlighteners." In Dresden the Communists had to call off 33 of a scheduled 40 rallies because only two or three people showed up. At the Leuna chemical works, a rally was shouted down by workers who stamped, whistled and cried: "Free elections!" The nervous Communists alerted the whole 200,000-man East German police force, and ordered the arrest of anybody who shouted for free elections as "a saboteur, warmonger and enemy of the state." At Berlin, Molotov found it necessary to warn bluntly that the Communists would not permit another June...
...Allies will retain the rights 1) to station troops in Germany, though these would become defense forces instead of occupying troops; 2) to settle all questions about Germany's frontiers, precluding any attempt by Germany to make separate deals with Russia or a bargain with Poland on Silesia; 3) to govern West Berlin; 4) to intervene if the Bonn government is threatened by either fascist or Communist uprisings; 5) to approve basic changes in foreign policy or trade policies (e.g., no deals to ship steel to Russia would be allowed...
...book has sold 230,000 copies in eleven months. Another adventure yarn that has been racing Kon-Tiki in British bookstores is Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse (TIME, Jan. 23, 1950), a suspense-tilled story of the escape of British soldiers from a German prison camp in Silesia. It has sold 250,000 copies since its British publication two years...