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Early in 1946, town and village elections would be held in the U.S. zone, and U.S. troops withdrawn to three state capitals, Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt am Main...
...there was one most fundamental difference. For its future security, Czechoslovakia looked not west but east. The cornerstone of Dr. Benes' rebuilt temple was a Treaty of Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Postwar Collaboration signed with the Kremlin in December 1943. The memory of Munich had erased the memory of Versailles...
...Munich last week burly Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, 76, longtime anti-Nazi who ones narrowly escaped being sent to Dachau, asked General Eisenhower for permission to build a convent on the site of that most dreaded of Nazi concentration camps. His vision: to make the scene of 20th-century mass martyrdom a place of pilgrimage for people of all faiths...
Cried bull-like ex-Premier Edouard Daladier, 61, who signed the Munich pact: "Pétain betrayed his duties and the charges of his office. . . ." (The sweating jurors sent for cooling drinks. Attendants brought them Vichy water...
There was trouble in another of Europe's traditional trouble spots-Teschen, whose southwestern part was once Czechoslovakia's Pittsburgh. Hitler awarded it to Poland after Munich. Now the Czechs want Teschen back. The Poles want to keep it. Cried Poland's Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski: all 852 square miles of the Teschen area must belong to Poland if ethnography means anything. Cried Czech Trade Minister Hubert Ripka: Even if the Polish claim were true, Teschen is so important to Czechoslovakia economically that she would not agree to settlement on an ethnographical basis. "If the Allies decide...