Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week German Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher, who in the past had been loudly against rearmament, came out for it "in principle," but added some whopping conditions. Chief among them: more U.S. and British troops in Germany or, as he put it, "a monumental Western military might along the Elbe...
...present and, apparently, for a long time to come, the only Western forces on the Elbe would be seven Allied divisions on occupation duty and about 100,000 state and local German policemen armed with clubs and non-automatic revolvers...
...entire area-which includes the ore-heavy Erzgebirge and Harz Mountains, and stretches roughly from the Czech frontier across Thuringia to the borders of the U.S. and British zones-is tightly shut off from the outside world. It is heavily guarded by Red German police and by a special force...
Most of the workers are forcibly conscripted, include political opponents of the Communist Party, criminals serving out their sentences, refugees from eastern countries, and East German workers laid off in other industries. The Reds have recently launched a huge campaign to persuade German workers to "volunteer" for the mines. Workers who refuse may lose their food ration cards...
...Musical Convent." A onetime Max Reinhardt student, German-born, 63-year-old Carl Ebert is one operatic director who insists that his "singing actors" know "the exact meaning of what they are singing and . . . strive to make it sound believable by their actions and expressions...