Word: westphalia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several West German Communist papers, warned by the North Rhine-Westphalia press commission to curb their tongues or risk suspension, were trying out a bowdlerized brand of Newspeak this week. In place of standard party-line invective against the Bonn government and the Western Powers, editors were substituting strategically located five-dot blanks. Sample from Düsseldorf's Freies Volk: "The Prague District Organization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia unanimously condemns the disgraceful action on the part of the representatives of the . . . . . Bonn Government which stands in the service of Truman's. . . . . and is trying...
...Sokolowski Hut. The 46,000 live in 104 camps scattered through Germany-104 Ellis Islands, with no entrances into the mainland of normal life. One of the camps is Augustdorf, in Westphalia. Nearly a quarter of the 1,800 people there have tuberculosis; 180 of the children are illegitimate. A spot on a lung in Augustdorf, as in the other camps, is a standard blackball against emigration; there is a black market in X-ray plates of healthy lungs...
Last week nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...