Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the Michelangelo film The Titan [TIME, Jan. 30], now lives? While serving with U.S. combat forces in April 1945, I found him in a little village which is now within the Russian-occupied zone of Germany. At that time he was working . . . on a documentary of famous German...
...each day of captivity, and every captured civilian $2 a day, the U.S. War Claims Commission ruled last week. The decision will give an average of $600 each to about 120,000 ex-prisoners, but it won't cost U.S. taxpayers a cent. The commission found that German and Japanese P.W. camps had underfed prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention; payments will be financed from seized German and Japanese holdings...
Behind the assaults loomed the stocky, swarthy figure of Georgy Maximovich Pushkin, Soviet ambassador to the German Democratic Republic. Pushkin had successfully directed the Red rape of Hungary; in 3½ years as Russian ambassador in Budapest he had discreetly masterminded many a Communist coup, including the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk. Last December he took over his duties in Germany. Last week U.S. officials in Germany were wondering if Pushkin's pogrom might be prelude to a new Russian plan to seize all Berlin...
...again. Sly Gerhart Eisler, now propaganda boss for Eastern Germany, announced a Soviet Youth March for Whitsuntide (May 27-30). With flag and fife, said he, special "people's police" units would lead half a million members of Communist youth groups in a demonstration into Western Berlin. German anti-Communists were sure that the Reds would try to take the opportunity to provoke violence, and if they could, to seize Western Berlin. Some Western observers thought that the Whitsuntide demonstration was only a smokescreen, that the Communists would actually try some sort of a coup before that...
Outside the chamber, one politician even ungallantly attacked the King's wife. Punning on the fact that during the war Leopold resumed the old German family title of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the speaker referred to pretty Mary Liliane as the "Princess of Sexe Coburg Gotha...