Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victim of innuendo and misrepresentation." His competence had been questioned by Lehman, his international experience attacked by the Democratic organization (in newspaper ads) as "a myth." Sentences from Dulles' writings were taken out of context "in an effort to represent that his major loyalty was to the German I. G. Farben ... It was alleged that the Nazis were-and are-his clients . . . that he had looked with favor upon the rape of Czechoslovakia and that he favored the aggressive wars of the Axis. Attempt was made to identify him with the German-American Bund...
Last week the Council of Europe, meeting at Strasbourg, was dandling the German problem on its knee. How far should the Council go in letting Germany back among the European nations? Should Germany be invited to send an observer-minister? The French objected. Or would the Germans accept the role of mere observers...
Last week Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons and dealt with the German problem in his greatest speech since the war. Said Churchill: "There can be no hope for a united Europe without Germany, and there is no hope for Germany except within a free and united Europe . . . France and Britain . . . have the superior power to raise
...future united greatness, forgetting ancient feuds and the horrible deeds and tragedies of the past, can make the core or the nucleus upon which all the other civilized democracies of Europe, bond or free, can one day rally and combine ... I see no reason why British, American, French and German soldiers should not stand in line together on honorable terms of comradeship . . . The grand design of Charlemagne must be re-adapted to modern conditions...
...Kremlin was scarcely concealing its designs on Germany. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy recently told a U.S. congressional committee that he expected the Reds to force a "real crisis" in Germany this spring. The Communists had blared out their plans for a German youth march on Western Berlin on Whitsunday, May 28. By dint of intensive preparations the Western allies now considered themselves ready to meet the Communist boys & girls. But nobody in Germany had any serious plans for coping with the Red army...