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Suspicious of the Creditanstalt's activities, U.S. High Commissioner Walter Donnelly (now Ambassador to Bonn), made a point of snubbing Joham, excluded him when he invited Austrians to meet Secretary of State Acheson in Vienna recently, and pressed unsuccessfully for his removal from the bank. But Austrian offi cials did hire an American auditing firm, at $500 a day, for a year-long look at the books. They soon found a foreign-currency employee who admitted engaging in illegal currency deals with people in Switzerland. He implicated others...
...Bonn government owes the U.S., Britain and France for economic...
Spain has been urging the Bonn government to appoint a German ambassador to Spain to act as the official representative of these men, as well as some 10,000 other Germans in Spain. For two years, Spain has had a diplomatic representative at Bonn. Postwar Germany has not forgiven Franco for his sale, at knockdown prices, of Germany's prewar assets in Spain (Madrid's German hospital went for I peseta), and the expropriation of German commercial firms (Siemens, Zeiss. Bayer, etc.) that were once the backbone of Spain's electrical, chemical and optical industries...
Kurt Schumacher's German Socialists held up passage of the bill for three days, while they held the floor for 25 hours in the longest filibuster in the short history of the new Bonn Republic. The bill, they complained, is "reactionary" because it gives the workers only one-third instead of one-half of the voting power in the larger industries. The German Federation of Trade Unions (6,000,000 members) for the first time agreed to join with Schumacher's party in fighting Adenauer...
Died. Frau Elly Heuss-Knapp, 71, wife of Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Federal Republic; after long illness; in Bonn. The daughter of Economist George Knapp, she founded the first evening school for women in Strasbourg when she was only 19. When the Nazis burned her husband's books and banned him from teaching in Berlin, Frau Heuss-Knapp supported the family by writing jingles for soap...