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...Catholic Chancellor almost singlehanded jammed reparations for Israel through his Cabinet; he works constantly to preserve a careful Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. Last week, when Hessian and Bavarian Catholic bishops urged their communicants to vote for Christian Democrats, Dehler cried clerical intervention. "Why does not Joseph Cardinal Wendel [of Munich] take over the government?" he demanded. "We would at least then know what we have...
Most of the criticisms were directed at the detail in which the Corporation discussed the case of Wendel H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, particularly the matter of his lying in 1944 to the effect that an applicant for government employment was not a communist, when he know that the person...
Flick turned to France and quickly landed a buyer: the giant De Wendel steel company, which has, in the past, built French (and German) cannon. Unable to feed their blast furnaces with scarce and low-quality French coke, De Wendel and eight associates needed a more reliable "coal-base" for their steel mills. They bought out Flick, thereby making sure of 5,500,000 tons of Ruhr coal a year, about 5% of West Germany's total output...
...meshing French steel with German coal supplies, the Flick-De Wendel deal seems, at first blush, to hasten the pooling of Western Europe's heavy industry, which is the object of the Schuman Plan. Already, however, there are fears that it may create an international version of the old Flick cartel that the Allies had undone and Schuman Plan authority has promised not to reestablish...
...emergency, Berliners (88% Protestant) rallied to help their fellow Christians. Berlin's famed Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius threw open the Marienkirche, the principal Protestant church in the city, to the Catholic meetings. He took Munich's Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Wendel as a guest in his own home. At open-air Masses in the Walbühne. Catholics worshiped before the same cross used by Protestants at last year's Evangelical Kirchentag. At Berlin's Funkturm fairgrounds, Protestant Pastor Lothar Kreyssing addressed the packed Catholic gathering and got the most thunderous applause...