Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Kurt Weill, 50, German-born composer of topflight musicals (Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus), who collaborated with Playwright Maxwell Anderson on the current Broadway smash hit, Lost in the Stars; of heart trouble; in Manhattan...
...year ago this week, the Western Allies accepted the draft for a German constitution proffered by the Bonn Convention. Since its establishment, the government has been a success in some respects as far as the Allies are concerned. It has remained free of Communist influence. It has also resisted daily offers from the Russian-controlled East State to confederate. Economically, according to the Economic Cooperation Administration, its industrial recovery has been "rapid and dramatic." This is a pleasing report for Western Powers who, according to John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, consider control of Germany the primary goal...
...strong enough to resist Communism, they have not successfully combatted rising nationalism, nor solved the economic problems resulting from the arbitrary division of the country. And, in some cases, they have been reduced to persuading the Bonn government to their way of thinking. The very strength of the West German State has become a matter for Allied worry...
These nationalists got more ammunition when France made a treaty with the Saar last month. That small territory, under French protectorate until a German peace treaty, leased its coal mines to France for 50 years in return for economic and political advantages. Western Germans claimed that the mines were German property--they belonged to the Third Reich--and that France had no right to make the treaty until a general European peace settlement. Both Kurt Schumacher, leader of the opposition Socialist Party and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, head of the Christian Democrats, complained. The Chancellor said, "German faith in the Allies...
...Both the German nationalists and the present government have agreed on the necessity of unifying all Germany under one government. The Western Allies, however, in finally standing for a unified Germany "under democratic principle," had other reasons than giving in to German patriotism. The line dividing East and West is not economically logical. The Western sector cannot get Eastern raw materials and the Eastern sector cannot buy Western manufactures. And, with the division, the West zone lost its principle food source in the East. Partly due to the division, West Germany now has an employment problem: its population has gone...