Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying] to make [Germany] definitely a tool of their aggressive, war-strategic plans in Europe . . ."). Then, crying "peace and international security," the communiqué demanded a Big Four "proclamation" banning the remilitarization of Germany, a peace treaty to be followed by the withdrawal of occupation forces, a new "All-German Constitutional Council" uniting East and West Germany...
Most of this was old hat. It meant, as always, a settlement of the German issue on terms favorable to Red conquest. In Berlin, Communist-wise Mayor Ernst Reuter observed: "We've heard these proposals a hundred times. The Russians know that they are no basis for serious negotiations. We can't touch anything that doesn't first off promise free elections in all Germany . . . The Russians are speculating on finding weak spots in the Western armor, and they may well find them...
...German rearmament had split Pleven's ministers. The Socialists were dragging their feet over the issue. One of their spokesmen, Defense Minister Jules Moch, was opposed to the U.S. plan for quick recruitment of a Germany army. "I will be the minister of French rearmament, not of German rearmament," he said stubbornly. A hectoring Communist communiqué from Prague (see INTERNATIONAL), demanding a halt to German rearmament, sent some Socialists into a flutter; they saw "another Korea on our doorstep...
...clicked: orchestra (under Joseph Rosenstock), scenery (by H. A. Condell) and singers. James Pease made the role of Sachs, the cobbler-poet, glow with gentle wisdom. The little second-act rage of the blonde Eva (Soprano Frances Yeend) was as charmingly impetuous as it should be. Her Walther (young German Heldentenor Hans Beirer) was impassioned, and in notable voice, in the Prize Song. And for once there was a Beckmesser (Baritone Emile Renan) who kept his comedy on the right side of slapstick. Altogether, it was a Meistersinger done with tender wit and the kind of freshness and spirit that...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...