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Conant said he has made tentative plans to leave his High Commission post in Bonn, Germany, for three or four days in June and fly back to award diplomas to this year's graduating classes. Developments in Germany this spring, however, may prevent his returning...
...Yugoslavs have not forgotten Nazi brutalities during the war, and West Germany distrusts any Communist regime, however anti-Russian it may be. But trade between the two countries (e.g., German machinery for Yugoslav metals) is flourishing. Last week Bonn announced that Yugoslavia this year would return to Germany 15 German nationals and 150 Volksdeutsche (Yugoslav nationals of German blood) now held in Tito's detention camps. This presumably cleans the slate of all German war prisoners in Yugoslavia...
...West Germany's agreement to pay Israel some $800 million for Hitler's crimes against the Jews, a payment which the Arabs say is the result of U.S. pressure on Bonn...
Most of the brass were the kind whom Bonn promises to bar from the new German army, or would be vetoed by other nations under the terms of the European Army Treaty. Typical was Luftwaffe Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzerknacker (tankbuster) whom Göring improbably credited with one Russian battleship, two heavy cruisers and 532 Red army tanks in 2,500 sorties. Decorated with the Wehrmacht's highest combat honors,* Rudel escaped to Buenos Aires at war's end, sold his memoirs (Nevertheless . . .) and, despite his wooden leg, bested all comers as tennis player...
...ability to bring warring viewpoints together. He used both to good effect in his three years (1949-52) as U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, where he won and kept the respect of conflicting political parties and, as chief architect of the peace contract, was the godfather of the Bonn Republic...