Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French, German, Slavic, and particularly to English Department would realize that the training of assistant professors is not their only function, and if they would modify their policy of "an annual half course for every half century," a lot more faculty talent would be available for Comp. Lit. Specialists could still find their kind of course given every other year, and the general students would have more opportunity to approach literature in the way he seems to like best...
...items, many of them perennials including: 1) U.N.'s condemnation of Franco Spain; 2) Communist threats to Greece; 3) Nationalist Chinese charges that Soviet Russia interfered in the Chinese civil war; 4) Western charges against Russian jamming of foreign broadcasts; 5) Russia's failure to repatriate German and Japanese prisoners of war. The steering committee also put on the agenda, without protest from Russia, Dean Acheson's proposals for strengthening the role of the Assembly( see above). Then it passed, without protest from the U.S., a Russian proposal to debate "American aggression" against China by its intervention...
...communique was vague on the most fateful problem that had been before the Foreign Ministers in New York: the U.S. proposal to incorporate German units in a Western army. After further talks last week, in which Defense Secretary General George Marshall, British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell and French Defense Minister Jules Moch took part, the three Foreign Ministers' conclusions will be submitted this week to the full North Atlantic Council...
...Journal, under Founder Lucius W. Nieman, had done well as an "outspoken, independent organ of the people against all that is wrong . . ." But shortly after Grant arrived, Nieman's fearless idealism nearly scuttled the paper. Fed up with the pro-Kaiser sympathies of many of Milwaukee's German-born, which persisted even after the U.S. entered World War I, the Journal began to translate and publish verbatim reports of anti-U.S. speeches delivered at pro-German meetings. Circulation plummeted but the Journal kept grimly on. It won a Pulitzer Prize for its campaign, and eventually found...
...best for him to leave the country immediately before the Communist government decided to use him as a witness. On the chance that border guards would not yet have been alerted to prevent his departure, he loaded his wife and dog into his car and headed for the German frontier. He crossed the border unchallenged, and was in Germany the next day to write the story of his escape...