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“GERMANY ABOVE
ALL” ANTHEM
BONN, May 6 (A.A.P.i.
The West German president
(Mr. Tncodorc Heuss) today
proclaimed “Deutschland
uber Allcs" (“Germany above
all") as the new West Ger
man national anthem.
The delay in adopting a nat
ional anthem was caused by
the rigorous opposition of the
Social Dwnoctats who found
the Deutschland anthem too
nationalistic. It was the an
them of the Hohenzollern em
pire and the Weimar Republic.
President Heuss originally
tried to introduce a new time,
"Tilt Hymn to Germany," but,
In a letter to Chancellor Aden
auer promulgating “Deutsch
land uber A lies," lie admitted
that the public had not taken
to the new anthem.
The United States High
Commissioner ' Mr. McCloyt
described the reintroduetlnn nf
“Deutschland uber Allcs" as
the German national anthem
as purely a German affair.
“I personally do not like the
song, but itow a people acts is
(IrciMW*, nir. who! it :-tnu,.."
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