Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until a better word comes along to denote that process, the dazzled layman can only call it education. Coca-Cola coolly takes hold of Japanese capitalists, Italian intellectuals, German bureaucrats and Bolivian laborers and trains them to do a series of specific jobs in every move and thought the way they are done in America. What is more, the trainees like...
...Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia heard a fellow officer declare him guilty of military collaboration with the Germans during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered...
Last January, officials of the West German government announced that some 400,000 German prisoners of war were still held in the Soviet Union. Western Allied officials thought this figure too high, but agreed that at least 225,000 and perhaps as many as 250,000 German P.W.s had yet to be accounted for by the Russians. Recently the flow of returning prisoners had been stepped up, and German families eagerly scanned the lists of returnees...
Last week, from Moscow, came news that chilled the hearts of thousands. All German prisoners of war in Russia, said the Soviet radio, had now been returned to Germany...
...German army was a good laboratory example, Dr. Kalinowsky told the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit last week. After World War I, which produced many "shell-shock" cases, German psychiatrists concluded that the neuroses were caused less by battle experiences than by secondary mental processes, e.g., the wish to escape from danger, and resentment of comfortable civilians. By 1926, pensions were a factor in these neuroses. Thereafter, Germany denied pensions to many shell-shock victims...