Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian front in December 1944, word reached OSS headquarters in Siena that Major William V. Holohan, chief of a secret mission far behind the German lines, had disappeared; the Army marked him down as one more brave man lost in the service of his country. Last week, 6½ years later, the Defense Department explained Major Holohan's disappearance: it was cold-blooded murder by four of his subordinates. The Defense Department's story was backed up point by point by the confessions of three of the accused men and by the recovery of Holohan's poisoned...
...reports to OSS headquarters in Siena, always playing a nerve-racking hide & seek with the enemy. One night, they lay flattened out in a rainswept field listening to Nazi convoys splashing down the road 100 yards away; for several days, they were hidden in a church altar vault while German troopers camped below...
...Free German Youth) members should quit work at 2:30 p.m. to join in. Truckloads of blueshirts came from camps, others poured by trolley and subway into assembly points along Berlin's east-west border. In ones and twos the Reds drifted casually into the Western sectors, suddenly congealed into solid, marching columns in three separate districts...
...retrieve the initial blunder. Police decoys, he admitted, are unloved characters anywhere. But the U.S. intervened in his case not for "valuable services" rendered the West, but because Kemritz had only aided an occupation power (Russia) in its legal right to arrest a suspected war criminal. To let a German court sentence him for doing so, said McCloy, would only encourage old Nazis to come out of their holes, start endless legal proceedings. It was a legalistic argument, and an unpopular one, but McCloy was determined to stick...
...Festival was not all it was meant to be. Food supplies were badly fouled up. A Red commissary officer was jailed for allowing 380 tons of meat to rot. East Germany's overburdened transport system broke down, stranded thousands of blueshirts en route to Berlin. And though East German police barred 165 East-West streets, closed 30 westbound subway stations to protect their delegates from "imperialistic contamination," more than 50,000 young Reds a day swarmed into the Western sector to have a look around; 1,590 asked for asylum. Most of the hooky-playing blueshirts, however, dutifully trooped...