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...very polite. "Highly esteemed President," wrote East German Boss Wilhelm Pieck last week to spry old Theodor Heuss of West Germany, "I approach you at a time of great import ... I propose ... a meeting to discuss how the road can be smoothed for the convening of all-German consultations to bring about the peaceful reunification of Germany...
Last week, after a brief, pointed correspondence with East Germany's President Wilhelm Pieck, Dr. Itten went to Berlin's Soviet sector. There he solemnly handed his box of trinkets (i.e., priceless Communist relics) over to East Germany's State Art Commission, watched grunting Germans load his precious statues on to a Swiss truck. An "exemplary cultural exchange," announced the art commissar grandly. Dr. Itten did not crack a smile...
Died. Prince Oscar Carl Wilhelm of Sweden, 90, head of the Swedish Red Cross (1903-45), brother of Sweden's late King Gustaf V, uncle of King Gustaf VI, father of Norway's Princess Martha and of Belgium's late Queen Astrid (who died in an automobile smashup in 1935), grandfather of Belgium's King Baudouin; of a heart attack; in Stockholm...
While the Allied High Commissioners and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer dickered, Soviet puppets kept new sideshows going in East Germany. Wilhelm Pieck, East German President, returned from six weeks in Moscow. East Germany took honey, soap and rayon off the ration list, and Propaganda Boss Gerhart Eisler cooed his "deep regrets" that West Germans wouldn't be able to enjoy the same privileges until unification-though the fact is that such rations are no problem in West Germany. East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced an amnesty for 20,000 prisoners (crimes unspecified, presumably political...
...London, George Mansfield, 39, farmer and naturalized British subject since 1945, filed for the right to resume his full and legal name: Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof von Preussen. Said the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II: "It is only a question of establishing legally my correct family name and title. The name Mansfield was merely a convenience in my business dealings on the farm...