Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared to admit that a rebirth of nationalism had brought about the re-emergence of some dangerous elements. But "if there were no rebirth of pride in Germany it would indeed mark a spirit of hopeless futility" that would discourage any hope for a German birth of democracy...
...Germany is the "real winner of the cold war." Said League Chairman Meier Steinbrink, justice of the New York Supreme Court: Anti-Semitism "is more prevalent in Western Germany than when Hitler first appeared on the scene," and "the reins have been handed back to that same caliber of German leadership which has yet to cleanse itself of the blood of two wars...
Though it huffed and puffed, the Government still could not budge a pert, German-born woman named Ellen Knauff last week. For 22 months she had been clinging precariously to her flimsy foothold...
Taken together with the Atlantic Council's decision to set up a joint cold war high command, and the Schuman proposal to pool French and German heavy industry (TIME, May 22), the new defense plan was the strongest impulse toward real union that the West's heart had felt...
...Question of Sympathy. The French have made more than the usual colonial mistakes. All too often, especially since they put the Foreign Legion and its German mercenaries to the work of restoring order after World War II, they have been arrogant and brutal toward the Indo-Chinese. They are paying for it now, for the bulk of Communist Ho Chi Minh's support comes from anti-French, or anticolonial Indo-Chinese. A sign over an Indo-Chinese village street tells the story; it reads "Communism, No. Colonialism, Never...