Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prominent German women, scheduled to visit Radcliffe next week have been barred from this country under the provisions of the McCarran Bill. Miss Isabelle Arms, executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, revealed the Government's action last night...
...Western Germany. For several days & nights last week, some 30,000 Red agitators and members of Red youth organizations had been crossing from East Germany into the Western zones. Many carried forged documents showing they were "refugees." Their task: to stage "blitz rallies" against the Western powers in West German cities, cause disorder, confusion and fear. The expense accounts of these Red traveling salesmen, reported Socialist Kurt Schumacher, were met from the proceeds of a vast coffee black market operated by the Russians in their occupation zone...
...face of this show of force-and dampened by driving rain-the Reds' day of "National Resistance" collapsed. There were minor riots in most West German cities, but all were quickly dispersed. At Munich, 300 Red agitators tangled with five policemen at the city's famed October festival at which 50,000 Germans had gathered to drink beer. Promptly, 200 German riot squadsmen rushed to the scene, arrested seven Communists-and everyone went back to his beer. That was the pattern in most of Western Germany. Police tirelessly quenched "peace bonfires," confiscated leaflets and arrested another...
...young West German republic had made a heartening display of nerve. Like their "Youth Rally" in Berlin last Whitsun, the Communists' "resistance day" was a sodden fizzle...
...sharp eye for a competitor's product, Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, back from getting a new movie rolling in Germany, had a prediction: "I would say if the political and military situation remain the same, some of our strongest competition two years from now will come from the German film market...