Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northern Ireland House of Commons. The issue on which every candidate stood was whether to keep the boundary by which Britain had divided her predominantly (65%) Protestant northern counties from predominantly Roman Catholic (92%) Eire. It was a foregone conclusion that those in favor of keeping the border would win. The surprise was that the Unionists (Protestants) increased their popular vote to 63% and rolled up a better than 3-to-1 majority in the House of Commons over the Republicans (Catholics...
This huge Unionist victory was due in no small part to a continuous campaign of vilification of the North, conducted in the Republic south of the border. "How can I hold out the hand of friendship [to Eire] when [she has] a dagger in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a jemmy in her pocket?" complained the North's Prime
Headlines in Rhyme. This week RIAS, powered by a 20,000-watt transmitter that reaches as far as the Czech border, begins its fourth year of broadcasting, under the direction of rangy young William F. Heimlich, 37, of Columbus, Ohio. As a lieutenant colonel, Heimlich arrived in Berlin in 1945 with the first American units. A former announcer, producer and writer at station WOSU in Columbus, Heimlich became director of RIAS a year ago, pepped it up with special events in addition to regular Voice of America programs. "After Goebbels," he says, "the Germans are fed up with long propaganda...
...starving, Irma wound up at a refugee camp. From there she was rescued and sent to the Christliches Jugenddorf. Plump, blonde Else had been working as a cook when told that she had been requisitioned by the Soviet military government. She was so terrified that she fled across the border without waiting to find out what the Russians wanted...
...their way in postwar Germany. Every week, from 20 to 30 young wanderers turn up there-boys like 17-year-old, shock-haired Karl Waldhauser, who had been drafted to work in a Russian-zone uranium mine. After three days on a pneumatic drill, Karl escaped and crossed the border at night. Says he: "I never get homesick. Maybe that's because my father and mother are dead. Now I want to be a farmer...