European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Ls48 revolution by Richard Cohen s year in Europe men went to the Barri to fight for reforms Rand National self determination psf Paul a Church in Frankfurt last a. Week marked the Centenary in february and spread rapidly across the continent for As the news from France arrived. In every land the uprisings were All things to All reformers but in no the primary goals the same As in another an unhappiness with existing conditions was the com Mon denominator and this Unap Priess. Expressed itself in the desire for free Doms and National unities. But in no Freedom mean the same thing. In France Freedom meant nothing More Radical than Universal suffrage and the right to a Job in the italian. Rotates it meant for some getting rid of the austrians and for others More Liberal constitutions. For the czechs of Bohemia it meant that they could Befree Only under a Strong Austria. To the Swiss Freedom meant the autonomy of the cantons in Hungary Freedom meant the abolition of a medieval social order t where this As late As 1848the. Peasantry did All the work paid All the taxes and expenses of the government in the army gave their lords a ninth of their income arid 52 Day work a year. What , roughly in 1848 was Freedom of the press trial by jury,.representa-,-Tive constitutional government and National Unity. Germany in lb48-was a Hodge Podle of 39 Independent states ranging from the powerful kingdom of. Prussia to the t minuscule principality of Schwarzburg Rud Olstadt. It included Rall kinds of kingdoms free cities grand duchies -.principalities, Dukedom bishoprics. Electorates and Margra Viates among which tiie states of Prussia and Austria contested for supremacy. The 40-Odd million germans were bound together Only by a common language and Cus Toms. To the. Germans democratic re form was inseparable from the idea of a single nation embracing All germans a state in which their a word that echoes ominously a Hundred years later might be fulfilled. It was this All print made shortly after the occasion of May 18, 1848, when delegates from different German states met in Pauls Kirche to propose unification of Germany. Pervading desire. F6ri-Unificattont the chances for important government Reform and thus blotted out both goals. By v1848, the the monarchy and the Duchess gets fined regularly by Franco -. Lola the Hausli Widerin was not pop ular with the Burgher s of Munich anther students were often publicly insulted by other less favored students. To get on Page 22 weekend May 2v
