Letter from the Continent
President de Gaulle’s triumphant tour of Germany aroused bitter, though not too articulate, opposition among the German Socialist Democrats, who were ignored at all official receptions, and also among the members of the Free Democratic Party, who were not too happy either at Chancellor Adenauer’s cashing in on the visit. Demonstrators, dressed in the local costumes of the lost eastern provinces of Germany, picketed de Gaulle with posters from time to time in protest against his statement some time back, that the Oder-Neisse line was a permanent boundary. The German press also remarked repeatedly that de Gaulle should have visited Berlin and that his avoidance of the former German capital was a genuine flaw in the arrangements.
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