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Hiltrud Schober, Pforzheim, Germany I agree with you on many points, especially the bureaucracy and the lack of efficiency in the E.U. Nobody would ever deny these shortcomings. Yet, I must firmly reject your suggestion that Europe should work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest, for instance in Bosnia, or reach out to the countries of North Africa, or cooperate with Turkey. Why don't you admit that it is the strategic interest of the U.S. to want other nations to be present in areas where the U.S. is not welcome...
BRIGITTE E. KLUMPP Pforzheim, West Germany
HANS-MARTIN BURKHARDT Pforzheim, Germany...
German Allies. The airlift, Korea, and the arrival of 2,500 Iron Curtain refugees brought the cold war to Pforzheim. From on high came a new occupation policy: recruit the Germans as allies. "Our so-called war criminals must be released before we can join the West," objected an ex-Wehrmacht colonel. Lascoe got U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy to come down to Pforzheim to talk to the town's leaders at an informal buffet supper (one dish: corn on the cob). They still had misgivings...
Today the French-this time Algerian Spahis-are back in Pforzheim. They came not as occupiers but as part of the thin line of defense the West is building against Soviet aggression. "This is the first time in history," said a Pforzheimer quietly, "that the French have entered our country without ravaging...