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...clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke wherever he went. In three days of whistle-stopping by train, auto, helicopter and frigate in Saxony, Schles-wig-Holstein and on the island of Helgoland, his audiences totaled well over 100,000, not only in rural areas, which are normally favorable to his Christian Democrats anyway, but also in cities partial to Opposition Leader Willy Brandt's Social Democrats. The response seemed to augur well...
Germany, he insisted, was least guilty of any of the warring powers in World War II. He smeared Social Democratic Leaders Waldemar von Knoeringen (chief of the party's Bavarian unit) and Kurt Schumacher (national boss), and Schles-wig-Holstein's Christian Democratic Leader Theodor Steltzer as Anglo-American lackeys and informers. He sneered at them for making "such a big fuss about Hitler's barbarism against the Jews...
...sand-colored marble palace in Athens, a short (5 ft. 2 in.), stiff-backed gentleman was having a lonely lunch of a simple entree and fruit. George of Schles-wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, King of the Hellenes, was suffering from a stomach ulcer, and a heavier meal, combined with all his worries about his realm, would have been inadvisable...