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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In its desperately cramped state, West Germany has been further burdened by a staggering influx of 9,000,000 refugees from the East-members of German minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Cry for Humanity | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Inevitably, the decision provoked some shudders. Could good grow from the fresh, unquiet grave of evil? The U.S. and its postwar Allies had decided that the answer must be yes, if Europe (and all the West) was to have peace, prosperity and freedom. The German who more firmly than any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Germans, who have never shown any talent for democracy, are today corroded by 16 years' dictatorship, war and defeat. They have probably made greater progress toward democracy than the U.S. had a right to expect on V-E day; the many political-action groups which have sprung up all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

"Germany," he says, "must declare herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands for." Adenauer is a devout Roman Catholic, but his party and his cabinet include some Protestants, with whom he works well. Politically, he is a Christian Democrat. He was a firm anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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