Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After discussing in his first two lectures the efforts to attain peace by agreement and their ultimate failure, Clay last night considered the potentialities of German policy as it is integrated with America's European policy. He cited several risks and problems involved in the integration, emphasizing that a strong Western Europe is the only solution sure to bring a long peace...
There is a slight risk, he said, that Germany will look to the east instead of the west, but this is unlikely because Russia has built up a "legacy of hatred" through its treatment of German prisoners and its oppressive conduct of east German affairs. The standards of west German occupation are respected, General Clay added...
...crime trials of the top Nazis completely discredited Hitler's leaders before the German people by revealing that the Nazi's heads were out for their own personal gain, General Lucius D. Clay said last night. He gave his second Godkin Lecture in New Lecture Hall before an audience...
American forces in Germany, he said, were the best influences for democracy there, although he "would not defend our troop's actions in the period immediately after the fall of Germany." These men in 1945, he explained, were fresh from facing the German on the battlefield...
Clay paid tribute to Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for his "most inspiring part in the development of the West German Constitution...