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...helped train senior officers in military government and worked with the OSS in Washington. In 1949 he returned to Germany as a visiting expert on education and helped reestablish the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik which had been dissolved by the Nazis. He also visited his old colleague, Theodor Heuss, now President of the West German Republic...
...Ruhr and all Western Germany as part of a united Western Europe. But he added that the free world was watching to see whether Germany would continue on the right path. It was during the question period, following his calm, factual address, that trouble started. Led by Theodor Goldschmidt, president of Essen's Chamber of Commerce, a group of Germans began firing complaints about high occupation costs, high taxes, the costly burden of refugees from the East, U.S. interference with German trade...
Germany, he insisted, was least guilty of any of the warring powers in World War II. He smeared Social Democratic Leaders Waldemar von Knoeringen (chief of the party's Bavarian unit) and Kurt Schumacher (national boss), and Schles-wig-Holstein's Christian Democratic Leader Theodor Steltzer as Anglo-American lackeys and informers. He sneered at them for making "such a big fuss about Hitler's barbarism against the Jews...
...cathedral, but St. Stephen's still needs 250,000 tiles to complete its new roof; by last week the church had money enough for only 40,000. In a tiny hut in St. Stephen's Square, donors could buy one tile for five schillings (about 19? and Theodor Cardinal Innitzer pleaded with Viennese to help clothe their "oldest citizen...
...Wiesbaden last week, kindly, silver-haired Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Republic, delivered a remarkable speech. It was the speech of a democrat and a Christian; it was also an item of evidence that, in the words of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (TIME, Dec. 5), much that is decent has survived in Germany. Said President Heuss...