It was only the third time in German post-war history that a presidential election has gone to a third round.

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Every night, for months, the television showed Euro-angular German stockbrokers, post-frat looking American traders, frantically disheveled Asian commodities brokers all looking up at tickers the home audience couldn't see, staring blankly upward as if they were waiting for Superman to save them.

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Soon after D-Day in 1944, while still a lieutenant, he became the first Welshman in WWII to be awarded the VC for his leadership in an assault on a German machine-gun post in Normandy.

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