Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the businessmen came shouts of "nein, nein." Replied McCloy sharply: "Well, anyway, U.S. taxes are much higher than before because of German aggression...
...complaint that reorganization of the West German coal and steel industries was going too slowly, McCloy answered: "Look, I know something about reorganization. I worked on reorganization of U.S. railroads. Your problems are no worse than those were." On the refugee problem, he observed: "You ought to see the good side of it"-meaning the West Germans ought to be grateful for the skills and energy that refugees have added to the West German economy...
...forget who started this war," concluded McCloy sternly. "Whether or not you gentlemen here are responsible personally for it, remember the war and all the misery that followed it-including your own-was born and bred in German soil and you must accept the responsibility...
Like their British comrades, Germany's Socialists are opposed to Western European union-unless, of course, such a union could be dominated by the Socialists (see INTERNATIONAL). In Bonn last week, German Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher gave the reasons for his party's stand. He also furnished his audience with an interesting insight into the workings of the Socialist mind...
Then Schumacher rose to the attack. By joining the Council of Europe, argued Schumacher, West Germany would serve notice that it had finally abandoned its 17 million East German brothers to Red rule. Schumacher in advance suspected a united Western Europe of turning into a neutral bloc, which would try to concentrate on its own affairs, fail to carry out a vigorous political offensive against the Russians in Eastern Europe. What was needed, said Schumacher, was not a united Western Europe but a united Europe-with a united Germany at its center. But he failed to say how he would...