Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tricolors, no flowers, no formal reception-only a couple of French officials, a doctor and two nurses waited on the platform at the Strasbourg station. The train from Germany pulled in, and eight men got out. They were reluctant wanderers, helpless victims of two mighty tyrannies, home for the first time in seven years. As P.W.s, they had been pushed around Europe and Asia, and released finally a fortnight ago from a Soviet labor camp in Kiev...
Along the station platform, the eight Strasbourg malgré-nous shuffled forlornly, dressed in patched pants of dark Soviet cloth and carrying light wooden boxes and flimsy suitcases. Among them was Oscar Baehr, a husky, 25-year-old, tawny-haired farm boy. As he was driven to the village where his parents have a prosperous farm, he recalled the great Wehrmacht retreat from Russia in 1944 (when he was only 18), then the Soviet P.W. camp at Grozny in the Caucasus, next Siberia, and finally Kiev, where month after month he cracked rocks with other P.W.s and some Ukrainian women...
However, Morize no longer teaches the course, though the framework will probably remain much the same. Armand Hoog from the University of Strasbourg will take over...
Behind the glassy facade of Strasbourg's "Capitol of Europe," the delegations of 15 nations finally came to a decision on the tempo and technique of European union. By a weighty majority (82 to 19, with 16 abstentions), the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe last week voted 1) to go slowly, and 2) to travel toward the goal via intergovernmental "specialized agencies...
...resolution passed at Strasbourg could bind any national government, but Churchill promised that he would place the resolution before the British House of Commons. Other delegates said they would do the same in their own countries...