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House for All. Drafting a constitution for a Western German state at the suggestion of the Western powers was an act of political courage. The Communist argument that a Western German government would split the nation has been losing ground ever since the Russians laid brutal siege to Berlin. Westphalia's Minister President Karl Arnold spoke of the Germans now under Russian domination: "We must be sure that what we construct will some day be a good house for all Germans...
...sseldorf, General Sir Brian Robertson, Britain's commander in Germany, addressed himself to the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament. Cried he: "Come forward determined to make the best of the largest part of your country. . . ." For the foreseeable future, Russian obstruction had made one Germany impossible. On the far side of the Iron Curtain was "unity," Robertson said, but it was "unity with the Czechs and other people of Eastern Europe in a common bondage...
Proof that Western Europe does not want a revitalized Germany was cited by Bernard Bernstein, ex-Mediterranean Theater trouble-shooter. France, he observed, would rather see the iron ore deposits of Lorraine expanded with American loans than the coal areas of Rlieno-Westphalia...
...into capture. On other occasions, Annie would innocently report "facts" that troubled civilians. Example: the Reich's cartographical institute, said Annie, was short of maps numbered 315 to 318; they were badly needed for national defense. Why, the Germans asked themselves, did the high command need maps of Westphalia, still 300 miles inside the Reich...
During the war the Nazis transferred coffin and contents to Siegen, in Westphalia. Last week a U.S. Army truck brought them back. Said the soldier driver reporting to the Allied officer in charge: "I've got the bones with me. Where...