Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitsuntide all Berlin will be ours," Communist Youth Leader Manfred Weigand had boasted. German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht had chimed in: "Whitsuntide will be the signal for a national uprising...
...German kids swallowed that kind of talk. Inside the F.D.J. there is an anti-Communist "Resistance" whose members pasted up anti-Communist posters in East Berlin with the message: "Ivan -Go Home!" Others distributed fake newspapers, their front pages strictly Communist, but the inside pages crammed with anti-Communist arguments...
Nevertheless, hundreds of East German youngsters managed to sneak into West Berlin. Many changed from their uniforms into plain clothes for the expedition; while they were gone, others waited impatiently for their return so that they could borrow the clothes. Most of the youngsters, who had been told that West Berlin was starving, were amazed by the food and the other goods they saw in stores. ^They bought as much as they could, in spite of weird warnings from their leaders. These included statements that oranges and candy in the Western sectors had been poisoned, and that West Berliners...
...meetings of the Foreign Ministers in London last fortnight were notable for launching both "total diplomacy" and specific means to that end: the Schuman plan to pool French and German heavy industry, a sensible division of military labor by which each member nation will eventually do one main defense job for all, and a unified high command for the cold war on Communism. The meeting had still another achievement, announced last week: during the talks, Messrs. Acheson, Bevin and Schuman reached their first accord on the Near East...
Purely in the interests of science, a number of intellectually curious Lowell House residents dumped four large (eight or nine pound) chickens plus a good-sized stray cat into the C-entry room of Kurt W. Lessen, teaching fellow in German, early Sunday morning...