Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombing of Monte Cassino Abbey was a "tragic mistake ... I said then that there was no evidence the Germans were using the Abbey for military purposes. I say now that there is irrefutable evidence that no German soldier, except emissaries, was ever inside the Monastery ... It only made our job more difficult." The bombing, says Clark, was ordered only on the insistence of Lieut. General Bernard Freyberg, commander of the New Zealand Corps, that it was a military necessity. After the bombing of the Abbey and the surrounding slopes, Clark says, Freyberg's forces failed to attack quickly enough...
...Clark defends his order of the bloody and abortive attack by the 36th Division across the Rapido below Cassino. It was necessary to draw German defenders away from the projected Anzio landing. The casualties were not 2,900, as the indignant 36th claimed, but 1,681. "If I am to be accused of something, thank God I am accused of attacking instead of retreating...
Yvonne returned to Paris in November 1945 and tried to reassemble her life. Comte Bernard had died in a German prison camp at Flossenburg. The La Rochefoucauld château in Normandy had been bombed and burned. France had awarded Yvonne the Croix de Guerre with three palms and star for her war work. From England came the King's Medal for her work with British Intelligence. But the countess was hard up. Although she held a medical degree from the University of Paris, she could not practice because of her concentration-camp injuries...
...Nazi Tank is only one of a number of German experts who escaped to Argentina after World War II. Now working as adviser on V-weapons for the Argentine Air Ministry is Werner Baumbach, onetime Luftwaffe bomber pilot who claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of British shipping. Another Air Ministry adviser is Adolf Galland, onetime Inspector General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Command. Working with Designer Tank is Hans Ulrich Rudel, a one-legged whirlwind credited with sinking the Russian battleship Marat and two cruisers, as well as knocking out a record of 532 tanks...
...head of the vocal department of the Manhattan School of Music, "just talked" to his City Opera "kids." He saw no reason to do Meistersinger "the way we did it 30 years ago." But he wanted them to understand the true (non-Wagnerian) history of the 16th Century German guilds so they would know what they were singing about. Then he went to work on German diction. When he got down to the fine points of acting, his final advice was simple: "Be yourself. Act as naturally as possible and you are the best actor in the world...