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...Bonn Doing Well. All is not strawberries & cream, however. Western Germany's prosperity still rests on a bedrock of $400 million annual U.S. aid. The housing shortage is still acute, and so is the economic plight of the war victims. In a camp, just beyond Bonn itself, 50 bombed-out families live like animals. Across the land, there are well over a million people unemployed. Conspicuous consumption by the wealthy (encouraged by a tax system that allows huge exemptions for "business expenses") makes for glaring contrasts with poverty...
...down western Germany, I found a new note in politics. To any number of political questions, people replied : "That's up to Bonn." The Bonn federal government has gained grudging acceptance, even respect. Local elections center on federal issues. Western Germany's body is beginning to respond to its brain...
...Destroyed the Bonn Constitution...
...small but vocal lobby had worked hard to reprieve the last seven "men in scarlet"; its efforts were backed by Bonn's Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher, leader of the nationalist German Free Democratic Party, Socialist Leader Dr. Carlo Schmid, and $12,000 of Bonn government funds. Twice the Department of State...
With remarkable speed, the Bonn government cracked down on the Neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party (TIME, May 21). A West German court last week found its führer, rabble-rousing Otto Ernst Remer, guilty of slander; during last winter's election campaign, Remer had accused Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's administration of subservience to the Western democracies ("Adenauer [is] nothing but a receiving station for allied orders"). Sentence: four months in jail...