The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 April 1968 — Page 4

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, April 2, 1968

Foreign news commentary

By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Hannover, ancient city of Kings, at an outdoor cafe in the bright sunlight of early fall, Erhard Herzig sipped coffee and brandy and told how it felt to be a German expellee from the land in which he was born. He came from the province of Silesia east of the Oder-Neisse and when he returned after being a prisoner of war in the United States, he found the Russians still there. His only clothing consisted of

a tattered British uniform. Soon, he also found himself expelled to the West, for Silesia, along with Pomerania and East Brandenburg was being turned over to Polish administration to make up for lands taken from them by the Russians. No Possessions He reached Hannover with no possessions and that night he, his wife and their young daughter slept without mattresses on two iron cots. He remarked sadly that his daughter no longer remembered

Silesia and that his son, who was born in Hannover, did not understand why his identity card labelled him an "expel, lee.” This conversation took place in October, 1961. The Berlin Wall had just gone up and the barbed wire dividing the two Germ any s had just been rein, forced and new mine field laid. Herzig was one of the some three million refugees from the East who had settled in Lower Saxony, making up half the peculation.

He is a member of West Germany’s Union of the Expelled whose members conclude their annual meeting with a moment of silence as they gaze through the barbed wire in the direction of their former homes. But even then Herzig didn’t really believe he would be going back to Silesia some day. Neither did most of the others among a total of seven million Germans forcibly expelled from the East. The Potsdam Agreement among the United States,

France, Britain and the Soviet Union turned the territories beyond the Oder-Neisse to Polish administration pending a final German peace treaty. Permanent Border But both the Poles and the Russians declared forcefully that so far as they were concerned, the border would be permanent. A German peace treaty is yet to be signed but through the years the West Germans carefully nurtured the thought those lands might be returned. At Nuernberg last week, at the Social Democratic party congress, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt almost laid to rest the myth of the return of the lost territories.

He called for “recognition and respect of the Oder-Neisse line” as one of the realities of

postwar Europe.

West Germany already had

renounced any Czechoslovakia’s

At Nuernberg he took another step toward erasing the fear and suspicion which has been the Soviet Union’s chief weapon to divide East and West.

Womans view

claims on Sudetenland.

Better Souvenirs ROME i UPI > — Tourists coming to Rome may soon find souvenirs in better taste The Rome Chamber of Commerce, apparently believing that many souvenirs now on sale are junk, has called a contest for production of souvenirs with artistic qualities.

By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UPI)-She is an artist who started out painting with oils and watercolors. She switched into the ancient and infinitely precise medium of enamelling "because I can do it in stages. When I was painting, I’d get absorbed . . . forget to meet the train, to pick up the kids, go to market.” It is Valiquette speaking, the Nebraska-born artist who specializes in designs created by fusing molten glass to metal. Tools for her art (and she believes she is one of the few

making it a fine art) are electric kilns which can be heated to as much as 2500 degrees Fahrenheit, copper, gold, silver, powdered glass, asbestos gloves, fire and acidproof apron, tongs, shovel, sulphuric acid, wood, hammers and saws. “Yes, I’m a bit of a carpenter too,” says the unusual artist. "I can rewire the ovens if necessary. You have to learn to do a little of everything.” The artist had just had some of her works exhibited at the Theodore Herzl Institute, an Continued on Page 5

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