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...Poles came to discuss the western boundary of their country. Some said that all six wanted it deep in old Germany on the Oder-Neisse line, including Stettin; others that three of the Poles, led by Deputy Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, were more modest. Between Poland's old western boundary and the Oder-Neisse line live some seven million people, the vast majority of whom are German...
...first meeting on Monday evening be committee decided to provide magazines and newspapers for the common rooms of Smith Hall and Standish Hall. The possibility of having a Freshman Oder and holding a chess tournament was also discussed, and the committee hopes to sponsor and dance at the end of the summer, if the number of Freshmen who can bring girls assures its success. The following Freshman have been appointed to the committee; Nelson D. Batchelder, Jr., James Bernstein, Morrill Cole, Ralph Davis, Stephen Davis, Donn, Dugan, Bernard Edison, John B. Jones, Jr., Donald Louiria, Buel S. Smith, Richard VanKleeck...
...similar feeling was broadcast by Berlin Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht. Said he: the "united front" program for a democratic, anti-fascist Germany should be adopted "from the Oder to the Ruhr, from Mecklenburg to Wiirttemberg." This was far beyond the Russian zone. It was also something for the Potsdam parley (see INTERNATIONAL) to ponder upon...
...General Eisenhower's armies ate deeper & deeper into the Reich, approaching Berlin and Dresden, and the Russian steam roller began clanking westward from the Oder River, the hottest question in the Allied world was: when will V-E day come? Behind that was another, subtler question: at what stage of German disintegration would a victory proclamation be justified? The second question was answered this week by Eisenhower in characteristically straightforward and sensible fashion: "There will be no V-E day until Germany is completely occupied, including all pockets of resistance, and the German Army is completely destroyed...
...huge flood of Russian might along the Oder and Neisse Rivers, fronting Berlin and Dresden, began to rise this week. The dikes crumpled first in the plains northeast of Berlin. Marshal Georgi Zhukov's forces, behind a tremendous predawn artillery shoot and attacks by swarms of bombers, broke into the Schwedt area below Stettin and set up a new Oder bridgehead 45 miles northeast of Berlin...