Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bierut detrained in East Berlin, Soviet German Premier Otto Grotewohl gave assurances: "Our worthy guest can be convinced that millions of men stand un-shakeably behind the policy of friendship ... support without reservations the peace border on the Oder-Neisse line." Bierut replied: "Our people have shaken hands over . . . the Oder-Neisse line." Red delegations chorused: "The Oder-Neisse line is the border of peace...
...emphasis on the frontier between two Red satellites? Western authorities believe that East Germans were pressing for a return from Poland of former German territory beyond the Oder and Neisse Rivers; this sentiment smoldered underground, undermined Red rule, disturbed the Communist regimes in neighboring Poland and Czechoslovakia. Bierut's visit to Berlin was apparently designed to dispel the reports of ugly ill feeling between the satellites. But to Westerners it looked as though the comrades did protest too much...
Last week the Soviets locked the door on some 920,000 art objects (from old masters to old coins and trinkets) carted off from Berlin* and Dresden museums since 1945. After months of temporizing, Russian authorities finally answered an East German museum official's request for the return of the masterpieces with a flat no. Their reason: the treasures (including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, Giorgione's Venus) were legitimate "war booty...
Dave Hedberg has moved up to second position for Harvard, behind Dusty Burke. Doug Wilde dropped to third, followed by Dave German and Paul Weissman. Mitch Rosenholtz and Bill Timpson fill out the team...
Ordinarily, one might easily overlook an Associated Press dispatch of April 22, stating that a Russian ice hockey team played the East German All-Stars. One might also overlook the fact that Communist newspapers "stressed that friendship was the thing and the score was no object." But one cannot overlook the fact that the score of this apparently innocent game of ice hockey...