Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courses in Spanish and Spanish American literature. Morize, a member of the administrative committee, has been one of the Center's chief benefactors in the way of furnishings and advice. The rest of the committee includes Renato Poggioli, associate professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Taylor Starck, professor of German; Francis M. Rogers, associated professor of Romance Languages and Literature and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and Dean Cronkhite, of the Graduate School at Radcliffe...
...Western generals do not want a German army to be set up now; they do want the Western governments to make the decision that within a specified time-probably two years-it will be set up, so that they can include it in their strategic plans for Western Europe's defense. In the meantime, they propose through M.A.P. to build up the Atlantic pact nations-particularly the French-so that they will have no reason to fear an armed Germany...
These plans were meeting opposition last week from an unexpected quarter-Germany. Both Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Socialist Opposition Leader Kurt Schumacher have said that they do not want a German army. A public-opinion poll in the new republic showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want to bear arms. Certainly, it was unrealistic to expect, as some Western military leaders have suggested, that Germans would long bear arms under foreign officers, i.e., under Western Union headquarters. Cried the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine last week: "You cannot buy German military ability for money, white bread and corned beef...
...West Germany was to be a nation, as the Western powers and its own people have decided, it would sooner or later have to be armed, and want to be armed. It would be up to the Western powers and to Germany's own democrats to keep a German army within reasonable bounds and under civilian control; if they could not accomplish that, they would not be able to accomplish very much else in Germany...
Last October, at his own pleading, Moncaster was released from prison, on condition that he assume a German name and go to work on a slave-labor project at Leuna, along with a group of German P.W.s. The Russians provided him with phony "German" identity papers, but never bothered to make him take off his British uniform. Last week Noel saw his chance. With the help of a sympathetic German fellow prisoner, he bought a ticket to Berlin, boarded a fast express at Leuna after the Russians had made their routine inspection and rode uninterrupted into Germany's British...