Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take It." In nine months of 1944-45, Walker's XX Corps traveled -some of the time at top speed-from Normandy to Austria. It was Courtney Hodges' First Army that smashed the hole in the German line, at Avranches, and it was the XX Corps and the rest of the Third Army that poured through the gap. The XX Corps' first major job was to clear the north bank of the Loire, but some of Walker's units helped to beat back the enemy counterattack at Mortain and pincer the German Seventh Army at Falaise...
...whole of Patton's depleted former front. Walker did it by mining and wiring in depth, plus aggressive patrolling. When the Bulge was erased, Walker was thirsty for action-and he got it. In a roaring campaign he cleaned up the Saar-Moselle triangle, seizing the key German stronghold of Trier, then took a leading part in the Third Army's thrust to the Rhine north of Coblenz and slashing envelopment of the Palatinate...
...Walker actually got to France ahead of the XX Corps as temporary replacement for Major General Charles Corlett, the XIX Corps (First Army) commander, who was ill. † Attila the Hun took Metz in 451 A.D. In the Franco-German war of 1870, the French surrendered it rather than starve. The Germans held it at the beginning of World War I and took it without a fight in World...
...German Communists got a new spiritual comrade. He was the soldier-king Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740-86), a flute-playing ally of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, and a fanatic military disciplinarian who could have made blintzes out of Joe Stalin's toughest commissars...
...Communists' new attitude toward a king they once denounced as an evil nationalist was symbolic of a new, all-out appeal by the Communists to extreme German nationalism. At a rally of the Communist-run Social Unity Party in East Berlin last week, German Communist Boss Otto Grotewohl launched a new "National Front." Standing below a picture of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung, Grotewohl announced that henceforth the German Communists would welcome anyone into their ranks. Said Grotewohl: "No patriot . . . will be excluded . . . Our National Front is not limited to democratic elements. We want everybody, including the former...