Word: germane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just returned from a month of travel among the ruined cities of Germany. When I look at the photograph of these young St. Louis ruffians ... I remember that 15 years ago the same type of German youth was beating Jews in the streets of German cities, burning synagogues and carrying on street fights against their own government. What has happened to American civilization, the American home, the American church, and our educational system, that it produces or tolerates this sort of conduct? And why should the St. Louis law enforcement agencies be so lenient with such rioters? Is closing...
Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...
Rings on His Fingers. This band was led by a capetánios named Papouas, a onetime physical culture student in Athens who had joined ELAS during the German occupation. Papouas boasted that he had been a scourge of Thessaly and Roumelia for seven years. The name Papouas was a pseudonym-taken, he said, from a primitive tribe whose members wore rings on their fingers and toes and in their noses. Papouas had many rings, but he wore them only on his hands...
Winston Churchill, with a sportsman's gesture, kicked in $100 for the defense of an old enemy: German Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein. The money, along with other contributions, will be used to hire a British lawyer for Mannstein at his war crimes trial Aug. 9. Meanwhile, Churchill spent a few quiet days entertaining Bernard Baruch, an old crony and his recent host...
When the Nazis invaded Poland, Author Wladyslaw Anders (who is now living in exiled retirement in England) commanded two divisions of Polish infantry and a cavalry brigade. In no time at all, these troops were trapped between the advancing German and Russian armies. Within a month, General Anders was lying in a Polish forest, half-dead from eight wounds, his divisions broken and scattered...