After sixteen years of service as the MANCHESTER GUARDIANcorrespondent in West Germany, TERENCE PRITTIEhas now been recalled to Fleet Street to become the GUARDIAN’S diplomatic correspondent. The following news story is one of the most startling which he uncovered on his way home.
London-born and a graduate of Oxford, TERENCE PRITTIEwas a prisoner of war in Germany from 1940 to 1945. Following his release, he joined the staff of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN and served as its correspondent in Germany for the past sixteen years. Now back in London, he takes a discerning look at the changes he finds in his native country.
Head of the German Bureau of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN for a number of years, TERENCE PRITTIE has traveled widely among the motorists of Germany. He is the author of GERMANY DIVIDED: THE LEGACY OF THE NAZI ERA, published by Atlantic-Little, Brown.
Born in London and a graduate of Chriet Church College, Oxford, TERENCE PRITTIE is a distinguished foreign correspondent who has been the head of the German Bureau of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN for a number of years. He also the author of GERMANY DIVIDED:THE LEGACY OF THE NAZY ERA, which just been publithed under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.
BY TERENCE PRITTIE London-born and a graduate of OXFORD, TERENCE PRITTIE was a prisoner of war in Germany from 1944 to 1945. Following his release, he joined the staff of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN and has been its correspondent in Germany ever since. The following is the second of two excerpts drawn from his new book, GERMANY DIVIDED,which has just been published by Atlantic-Little, Brown.
London-born and a graduate of Oxford, TERENCE PRITTIEwas a prisoner of war in Germany from 1944 to 1945. Following his release at the end of the war, he joined the staff of the MANCHESTER GUARDIANand has been its correspondent in Germany ever since. He has broadcast repeatedly over B.B.C. and has appeared on television in both Britain and Germany. The following is the first of two excerpts drawn from his new book, GERMANY DIVIDED,which will be published by Atlantic-Little, Brown next month.
Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is a candidate for reelection this month at the age of eighty-one. His re-emergence from obscurity at the war’s end and his reassertion of strength and leadership at an age when most men would be retiring make a remarkable story and one winch has been seen at close hand by TERENCE PRITTIE,the Manchester Guardian’s correspondent at Bonn.