Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week high winds lashed at the sandbanks along the German coast. The winds brought bits of planking from the Lusty Snake and the drowned bodies of Sten Schroder, Viking, and one of his crew. No survivors have been found...
...Smyth believes that Nazi contempt for intellectual freedom strangled German science and through it German technology. He suspects that Russian dogmatism will do the same. "Some of the things," he warns, "that happened in Germany and are happening in Russia could happen here . . . We are in a dilemma that . . . can be simply stated by the questions: How much should we talk? or, How much talk should be permitted...
...know what happened, but I slugged him." Before he could be arrested, Grieger ran. At the border, he picked his way through a triple-alarm system, was shot at as he swam across the Neisse River to Germany. When he reached the Soviet sector of Berlin, a friendly German helped him into the Western zone-where it was less risky to toast the King...
Three weeks ago, East Germany's Communist Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht signed a treaty with Communist Poland, formally ceding German territory east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers to Poland (TIME, June 19). Last week Ulbricht signed another agreement-with Communist Czechoslovakia. The document proclaimed as "permanent and just" the postwar expulsion of 2,000,000 Germans from the Sudetenland-the border region of Czechoslovakia which Hitler seized in 1938 and which was returned to Czechoslovakia at the war's end. Henceforth, declared the agreement, neither country would have any territorial claim on the other...
West Berlin's anti-Communist press called the treaty "treason." The Western Allies ignored the agreement. The U.S. did not object to the return of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia-it did condemn the brutal expulsion of its German inhabitants, most of whom now crowd Western Germany...