Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served on the policy staff of German Military Government, I assure you this needs to be understood in high and low places...
...sense of crisis was most acute in Berlin, where two worlds faced each other balefully. Half a million German comrades paraded in the Soviet zone, held high the images of their master Stalin. Three-quarters of a million gathered in the Western zone to cheer anti-Communist speakers. Between opposing camps ranged a thin line of police and occupation troops. At Potsdamer Platz, demonstrators surged from the Allied toward the Soviet sector, hurling stones at its police, shouting "Black SS!" and "Communist pigs!" They were promptly dispersed by West German police...
...more than a year, East Germany's bricklayers, asphalt, steel and cement workers have gone through an unprecedented period of full employment, building runways, flak emplacements and barrack? for the Soviet air force. East German taxpayers paid the costs. German labor offices had to recruit thousands of workers. If the labor offices failed, their functionaries were demoted or arrested. If German workers demurred, they were told: "Well, you can go into the People's Police or the uranium mines if you prefer." There is now a massive and menacing concentration of Russian air power in the Soviet zone...
...year-old Bishop Otto Dibelius, chairman of the Council of Evangelical Churches (EKID) in both the Western and Eastern zones of Germany, was as quick to react as he had been against the aggressions of the Nazis. He promptly called on Otto Grotewohl, Minister-President of the Eastern German government, and presented documented evidence of Communist oppression of clergymen, church welfare groups and devout laymen. Grotewohl dismissed Dibelius' evidence as "insufficient." Other Soviet officials suggested that clergymen who did not support the Communists' "national front" should be severely punished. Bishop Dibelius' next move was to write Grotewohl...
Next day Dibelius, the Eastern zone Evangelical bishops and several Catholic churchmen met with Grotewohl. From the meeting came a joint communique: "The representatives of the churches gave assurances that they were deeply concerned with the reconstruction of the life of the German people in peace and freedom. The representatives of the government gave assurances that the church in the German Democratic Republic could work unhindered on a constitutional basis...