Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Meinertzhagen was the man who fooled Franz von Papen in Palestine [during World War I], exposing himself to a chase by German cavalry and losing a saddlebag full of carefully prepared misleading information about General Allenby's plans. Meinertzhagen, moreover, is the only living European . . . who has entered the hallowed and mysterious cave of Machpelah* in the tomb of the patriarchs at Hebron...
Until France gets herself a government, long overdue decisions (on French airfields for NATO, West German rearmament) are impossible...
...German operators received the XXI more than a year too late. We did not need that type submarine against the tired Jap. In my considered opinion, if Jap air and escort-borne radar had punished our subs at the rate ours did the Germans, our designers would have produced a snorkel and other necessary equipment in less time than did the Germans...
...satellite countries unless he has good reason. Also present: Marshal Georgi Zhukov, recalled from the limbo to which he had been banished in 1946; Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, boss of Poland's armed forces (a week ago reported assassinated); Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht of East Germany, the top German Communist; Polish President Boleslaw Bierut and enough deputy premiers from Albania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Outer Mongolia, Hungary and Rumania to fill several police vans...
Radio stock went soaring from $2.50 to $549 a share, was split and resplit. Insiders made killings in radio pools, but Sarnoff had a reputation for keeping aloof from such shenanigans. At their height, he sailed to Europe to help Owen Young set up the Young Plan for German reparations...