Description: I. "The East-State and West Berlin's answer." a. Establishment of the German Democratic Republic (GDR: the Volksrat (renamed Volkskammer) adopts constitution and elects President (Pieck), Prime-Minister (Grotewohl) and deputy PMs (including Ulbricht); Pieck announces elections for October 1950. b. West Berliners protest in mass rally outside the Schöneberger Rathaus: extracts from speeches by Suhr, Neumann and Louise Schroeder attacking GDR.
II. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. Hamburg drivers organise excursion to Baltic resort Grömitz for disabled war veterans and ex-POWs. b. Philatelic exhibition in Munich marking centenary of stamps in Germany. c. Horse festival/contest at Celle.
III. "Allerhand PS." a. Opel motor company trace oldest Opel still in regular use and present its owner with 100,000th 'Olympia' off the production line. b. German made motor-scooters. c. Stuttgart model motor-racing club. d. London Motor Show.
IV. "High seas drama." Halifax, Canada: lifeboat rushes American specialist and portable iron lung to tend critically ill man on a liner.
V. London: the "fairy-tale" wedding of Viennese-born concert pianist Marian Stein to the King's nephew, the Earl of Harewood.
