Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many less fortunate newcomers, officially labeled by the refugee administration as "that group of persons which is not to be harbored in the Western zones," live in "wild camps" which are little more than mud holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among the refugees, Communist agitators are busy extolling the glories of East Germany which they have left behind. Cried one rabble-rouser in a speech at Wiirzburg recently: "We have only one road-back home, barefooted and in our underclothes...
This is the land which Chancellor Konrad Adenauer must, with Western help, lead to democratic order and freedom...
...focus of this continuing battle for Germany's allegiance is Berlin. In the divided city's Eastern sector, the Russians have set up the capital of their puppet state; to all Germans, they proclaim Berlin once more the capital of the Reich. But the city's Western sector feels itself abandoned by the West...
...political and psychological threat to the new republic, German competition will soon be a force to be met by the French and British in commerce and trade. Obviously, further demands for wider sovereignty and the chance to produce even more will be revived by the Germans when the Western occupation statute is reviewed next fall...
...Germany Must Be Defended." Obviously, also, West Germany-as the Western world's most critical frontier against Communism-is worried about its ability to defend itself. To U.S. military leaders in Washington last week, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery gave his views on the matter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Frankfurt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson was quick to announce that as far as the U.S. was concerned, Germany must not be permitted to maintain an army. Nevertheless, arguments for arming...