Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the war, the most persistent block to integration of continental European economics has been the French fear of German economic supremacy, once German industry was rebuilt. France has been adamant in her demands that Britain must enter into any European economic union to balance out the German industrial power. Therefore her offer last week to put all German and French steel and coal production under a "joint high authority" came as a surprise to everyone, especially to the British...
...German army experience was matched in other countries where the civilian population was under fire. Even the heaviest bombings in the Battle of Britain had negligible effects on the mental health of civilians: there was nowhere for them to escape to, and no hope of compensation. Significantly, children evacuated to "safe" areas posed greater mental problems than those who stayed under the full force of the blitz...
...U.S.S. Hornet, covered the battle of Guadalcanal and the invasion of Guam. Last week, Newsman Arnot, 33, was in the thick of a different battle. As director of Amerika-Dienst, news and feature service of the U.S. High Commission in Germany, he was passing the ammunition to German newspapers in the cold war against Russian propaganda...
...service was Arnot's own idea, set up in July 1948 after he went to work for the High Commission. It has become so popular with West German editors that last month they used 393 pictures and 1,044,960 words put out by the service. In one week recently, the Braunschweig Zeitung ran an illustrated spread on U.S. Quakers, the Berlin Telegraf filled its children's page with a visit to the White House, the Gottingen Tageblatt told about U.S. cowboys, and a dozen papers carried a character sketch.of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg...
Wary of official handouts after twelve years of Dr. Goebbels' force-feeding, German editors have grown to trust Amerika-Dienst because it does not slant its stories. Arnot figures that the good in U.S. life will outweigh the bad in any factual presentation. Once an editor in Nürnberg rejected an Amerika-Dienst picture of hundreds of U.S. workers' automobiles parked in front of a factory because "My readers will say it's just so much propaganda." Arnot came back with a story discussing high prices and unemployment, but also documenting the fact that...