Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Military men and politicians had known all along that plans for Western Europe's defense made no sense unless they included a West German army. By last week Winston Churchill, Dean Acheson, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had publicly indicated that some degree of German rearmament was in the cards. But despite all these wisps of smoke, there was no fire...
...Allied high commissioners in Germany had also kept it off their agenda. Result: when the Big Three Foreign Ministers meet in New York this month, they will not even have joint preliminary studies on which to base their discussions. While U.S. authorities in Germany avoid all talk about a German army, the more realistic British and French have wined & dined German generals...
Richard Stern, director of the German university's English seminar, writes that the American books are needed for some 300 students attending lectures on American literature. "Literary soldiers stripped the pre-war shelves," explains Stern...
Organized to promote an interchange of ideas on student activities, the seminar paid special attention to the topics of academic freedom, student political activity, specialization in university education, and American fraternities as contrasted to German Verbinungen (student clubs...
...outside, the Liberté looked much the same as the Europa did in 1930, when she held the blue ribbon for the fastest (4 days 17 hrs. 6 min.) east-west transatlantic crossing. The climax to her German career came in 1939, when she slipped out of New York on Aug. 22, skipped her Channel stops, and scurried into Bremerhaven three days before war began. There Allied troops found her, in May 1945, filthy from neglect but undamaged by bombing. Used briefly as a U.S. Navy transport, she was returned to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency because U.S. experts thought...