Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following excerpt is from a letter we have, just received from TIME Perpetual Subscriber 101, a German living in Germany. He writes: "Having had the doubtful privilege of living in a totalitarian state for 12 years, I have been deprived of reading TIME for many years . . . When war broke out I had to put up with a dreary, TiMEless life. For an old perpetual, this was truly an ordeal. Now I am getting TIME again at the very date of issue, like any New Yorker, although I live in a tiny community some four miles from a railroad station...
...World?" Last week Germans were aroused and enraged by a report that France had signed with the French-run Saar government a so-year lease of the Saar coal mines. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked French High Commissioner Andre Frangois-Poncet for a copy of the agreement. François-Poncet obliged. Later Adenauer called the French officials for "clarification" of some points in the document. François-Poncet obliged again...
Then Adenauer, echoed by most West German leaders, issued statements of bitter protest. Their position: before the war, the Saar mines were the property of the German government; the Allies turned over former Reich property to Adenauer's Bonn government; nobody else may legally lease them. On this basis, Adenauer expressed sharp disappointment with the Western powers. The Saar deal, he said, made it impossible for West German representatives to attend the proposed Council of Europe meetings in Strasbourg...
...Great Ghetto of Warsaw under the Nazis there lies enough pathos to sate any man. The systematic slaughter of almost half a million Jews in one year; the fantastic desperation which made less than a thousand ill-armed, undernourished Jews stand up against three times their number of German troops with tanks and flamethrowers in the last days of the extermination-these contain emotion enough to sicken the reader of a novel...
...that way, this books is a study of the effect of terrible danger on the emotions of love and loyalty, and more particularly on the feeling of Jewishness. The most important symbol of the book is used here with the edge of irony. The Wall which the Germans had built around the Ghetto to keep the Jews in-to separate the Jews from the Gentile-has a parallel in the spiritual wall between the Jew and gentile. The irony lies in the fact that the Jews built the physical wall with their own hands in the German labor battalions, just...