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East Germany's Communist government decided to dissolve these provinces: Brandenburg, once the domain of the Margrave of Brandenburg for whom Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six famous concertos: Saxony, birthplace of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire; Mecklenburg, once obedient to the Duke of Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt, which produced Martin Luther and George Frederick Handel; Thuringia, a center of Luther's Reformation...
...Determinedly friendly from the first, they had made a point of visiting the U.S. camp, chatting in sign language and translated wisecracks. The U.S.'s world champion shotputter, brawny, injury-prone Jim ("The Magnificent Wreck") Fuchs, swapped shot talk (through a translator) with Russia's Shotput Ace Otto Grigalka, who stepped into the ring, dressed in his tight-fitting double-breasted suit, to demonstrate his technique...
Marie's early work showed the influence of Toulouse-Lautrec and of her dabbling in cubism. But World War I took Marie out of her Paris circle for a while; she had married a German painter, Otto von Watgen, and when the war came along, she and her husband had to leave France. They lived in Spain until 1918; then Marie got a divorce and went back to Paris...
...Communists had given noisy warning of what might happen if the West German Republic cast its lot with the allies. "The signing of the contractual agreement," blustered East German Premier Otto Grotewohl last month, "will produce in Germany the same conditions that existed in Korea." He added later: "It will bring Germany to the brink of a civil war, and of a new third World...
...THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING ON THE LOSING SIDE ... A COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT AMERICANS HAS BEEN FORMED TO WORK FOR THE RELEASE OF THESE MEN AS WELL AS FOR FIELD MARSHALS MANNSTEIN, LIST, KESSELRING, MAJOR GENERAL OTTO ERNST REMER AND MANY OTHERS. IN FAIRNESS TO THE APPEALS NOW IN PROGRESS, WE ASK THAT YOU REPRESENT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY...