REPUBLIC BORN ANEW
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Postwar German Parliament Meets For First Time
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Received Thursday, 11 a.m. i BERLIN, Sept 7. The German R'epub iC was borh aneto today beneatl- the black, red and' g'ol'd flag 'of the "ol'd Wehnar regime. Meeting for the first time in Bdrih to inaugurate Germahy's first Government since the deStritctioh Of Hitler, both Hotiseis of the new West German Parliament heard pieas for their coufitry fco be readmitted to the, family of nations as an equal. Herr Paul Roebe, Speaker of the Reichstag during, the first Re*public, addressed the Lower House of 402 eleeted deputies as sefiiot hleihber. He said that as a member for Berlin he knew the "incredible Cxi;ent'' to wnich the West fiad he'ped Berlin and saved it front starvation." In putting the restoration of German unity as our fOreiftost ta§k, We proffligfe at the same time that this Germany will be a sincere meniber of a United Europe," he said.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 September 1949, Page 5
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