Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German people knew that U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy had recently gone home to discuss Germany's problems with U.S. officials. They did not know that he would return to Germany with an important policy statement...
...charging the Germans with the responsibility for Hitler's crimes . . . No one demands a beating of the breasts or a scene at Canossa.* But what I do expect is an end to the arguments of those Germans who would not only deny their own guilt, but also seek to place the responsibility for the consequences of that guilt exclusively upon the shortcomings of other peoples ... I want you to know that such utterances . . . call to mind what people are now disposed to forget, that is, the amazing docility and acquiescence of the greater part of the German population toward...
After this blunt reference to recent statements by German leaders in the dispute with France over the Saarland (TIME, Feb. 6), McCloy said: "Agitation of foreign issues, however tempting, cannot distract attention from vital domestic issues and from the pressing need for domestic reforms...
...Americans are not here exclusively to feed the German people and promote economic recovery . . . Our main purpose is to help Germany achieve political recovery . . . That is my answer to those who occasionally say that we have no right to mix in the political problems confronting this country...
...Battleground" is the story of an airborne unit at Bastogne, during the German winter counter offensive of 1944. This is a singularly unheroic unit as movie fighters go, preoccupied not with the Tradition of the Service or the Call of Duty, but with frozen feet, interminable K-rations, and three-day passes to Paris. The unit is trapped, partly through its own inexperience. It fights against an intelligent, non-fanatic enemy it often cannot see. Its men die quietly and terribly with a minimum of dissertation on the evils of war, or the girls they have left behind...