Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Waldorf-Astoria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), France was still reluctant to face reality. The U.S. move to increase its ground forces in Germany by five or more divisions was "most pleasing" to Paris. But French Foreign Minister Maurice Schuman put in the inevitable French warning on German rearmament. He wanted any rearming of the West Germans to wait a while. Said Schuman: "There is an obvious desire for all to see a line of defense as far east as possible for Europe. But the Allies must have priority. When the Allies' minimum defensive strength has been reached...
Berliners and West Germans know that only token defenses stand between them and the threat from the East. Under the circumstances, it is not surprising that many Germans (and other Europeans) are profoundly discouraged and defeatist. West German morale soared during the Berlin airlift, plummeted when the West failed to take advantage of its moral victory. Morale flashed up again last June when the U.S. promptly and decisively accepted the Communist challenge in Korea. But it dropped again when U.S. battle defeats, added to appeasing statements from Washington, cast doubt on the U.S. determination to make a firm stand against...
...Terrified Rabbit. Few men understood this danger so clearly as Berlin's Reuter. He did not need the Korean war to bring home to him the nature of the Kremlin's conspiracy against the world. He had once been a high official of the German Communist Party, a trusted friend of Lenin, an associate of Stalin. Reuter not only understood the danger, he knew what had to be done to meet it. Said he: "It is not my business to act like a terrified rabbit staring at a snake." For the past four years he had made...
...instance, make 50 million tons of steel a year against the 28 million-ton capacity of Russia and its satellites. Yet if West Germany's 50 million people and 15 million-ton steel capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German industrial capacity still in Western hands, there were calamitous dangers in the present situation of free Europe. The free nations had scarcely made a beginning at integrating their industrial efforts. France's bravest postwar gesture, the Schuman Plan to unite Western European coal and steel production, was bogging down...
...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...