Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallows platform, a U.S. Army hangman was waiting for him. Blobel (responsible for the killing of 30,000 Jews at Kiev in 1941) got 90 seconds for his last words. Thrusting out his spade-bearded chin, he cried: "I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies...
...musical news in Berlin last week was a ballet-opera, Columbus. Written by a 50-year-old German composer named Werner Egk, it deals with Columbus' journeys to America and has some mildly metaphysical ideas built into the libretto. But Berlin was less interested in the story than in the style. Composer Egk (rhymes with peck) has his principal singers stand inconspicuously beside the orchestra while ballet dancers enact the story. The chorus is posted behind gauze curtains...
Balachovsky scrupulously pointed out differences between the Russian and German camps: the Reds do not perform scientific experiments on the prisoners, do not practice racial extermination; the possibility of release does exist. But, he concluded: the court "condemns before universal public opinion the Soviet concentration camps . . . already condemned by history...
Bryant tries neither to teach nor to hector, but his book is full of parallels with the history being made today. The Czar's soldiers had smashed Napoleon's Grande Armee, but had become the terror of the people they liberated. "Better the French as enemies," German peasants were beginning to say, "than the Russians as friends." The fears of Europe were much the same as the world's today: "What if. having occupied Finland, Bessarabia and Poland, the northern colossus should now strike southwards across the central Asian deserts to the Indian Ocean?" And when British...
...omniscient penman turns out to be a man named Kuno Schiller, a brilliant photographer who has discovered the N-ray-something which can catch men's thoughts for him on sensitized paper. Schiller offers to photograph foreign diplomats, reveal their secrets to the German government. The government accepts his offer and, for a time, acting on Schiller's information, conducts a preternaturally successful foreign policy. (It is the era of the Locarno Pact...