Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Dean, a career officer of nearly 30 years' service, distinguished himself as a fearless and able commander in World War II (during which his hair turned practically white). His 44th Infantry Division drove through Germany into Austria, helped force the surrender of the Nineteenth German army, took 30,000 prisoners. General Dean was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism in action . . . outstanding leadership and utter disregard for personal safety." Said General Douglas MacArthur last week: "It is still hoped that this gallant officer, if alive, has not fallen into enemy hands...
...refugees in Western Germany were "adequately protected" by them. Refugees thought differently. In crowded Schleswig-Holstein, where refugees constitute nearly 40% of the population, they finally organized to protest against their status as "second-class citizens." The entrance of organized refugees from the East into German politics had long been feared. Now it had arrived, and it promised to become one of the most disturbing factors in West German politics...
...Stoutz has installed 71 jukeboxes in Geneva, Zurich and Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino Gigli. The overall favorites, however, are Music, Music, Music and Chattanooga Shoeshine...
...peculiar request highlighted a peculiar situation last week. Britain, France and the U.S. asked the Kremlin to let an international commission search Russia for missing German prisoners...
...April 1947 Russia agreed to repatriate all German P.W.s by the end of 1948. But she has kept many-presumably for slave labor, Communist indoctrination, or both. Russia claims that she holds only 13,546 German prisoners. Yet 90,000 Germans still in Soviet hands have written to their families, and returning prisoners have given the names of some 300,000 others still in the U.S.S.R. The Western powers believe that there are also 350,000 Japanese prisoners still in Russian hands...