Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your issue of July 23 you say of Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen: ". . . As press chief for General Eisenhower during World War II, he was blamed for holding up news of the German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge." Blamed, yes, by those who did not know that in Allen's pocket there was an order from Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff of SHAEF, saying in substance, "there will be a lag of 48 hours in all news given about our positions during this situation...
...further: "He also held up the news of the German surrender and the war's end until A.P.'s Ed Kennedy defied the ban and broke the story." But for one who was sitting alongside of Allen when he pleaded with General Eisenhower to get the "heads of state" to release the story of the surrender ahead of the time agreed upon by [the Allies] and heard the reply from Eisenhower, "Those are my orders, Allen, and by God, they are yours, too!", this continued blaming of Allen strikes a very sour note...
...Germans and an Austrian discussed present-day problems of the German-speaking peoples of Europe in a forum last night on contemporary European affairs sponsored by the Foreign Students Seminar...
...German students presented contrasting views on the role of the Schumann Plan in the European economic picture. Rudolf Renger, an official of the Social Democratic party, and an Inspector in the Civil Service of the West German state of Schleswig-Holstein, criticized postwar Allied policies towards Germany, stressing the forced deindustrialization of the Ruhr and the lack of benefits for Germany under the Marshall Plan...
...other German speaker, Guenter Sengspiel, a student at the Free University of Berlin, challenged Renger's views...