Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hamburg captains dressed their ships in gay signal flags, beaming teachers gave school kids the day off. The cause for rejoicing was a letter from the Allied High Commission which lifted several restrictions on shipbuilding. German ships up to last week could not be larger than 7,200 tons or faster than 12 knots. Now Germans can have ships as big and as fast as they want, although a limit on overall tonnage remains. (Within two days North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika ordered 14 new 16-knot vessels...
...same letter erased almost all restrictions on German industry. It authorized production of synthetic oil and rubber, aluminum, chemicals for peacetime use, and, in effect, wiped out the quota on steel output. Still verboten were atom bombs, heavy munitions, certain optical instruments, airplanes, warships...
...Bereitschaften, the heavily armed shock troops the Russians were illegally organizing in the East zone (TIME, June 12). At their trial, two of the men turned state's evidence. One of them, 21-year-old Heinz Nocht, gave Western intelligence a detailed picture of the new East German army, amply equipped by the Russians with Nazi weapons. Since then, Western diplomats have found Nocht's testimony useful for throwing back at the Russians whenever they accuse the West of aggressive designs against East Germany. Nocht was paroled and taken to West Germany, where he lived out of reach...
...from prosecution, the talkative general expected some assistance in return for his information. Although earlier acquit ted by a Polish War Crimes tribunal, he had been given a ten-year sentence two weeks ago by a German denazification court, for his part in atrocities in Poland. Now that he had solved the mystery of Göring's suicide, the general hoped, somewhat naively, that the U.S. would intervene to lighten his sentence...
Nuclear physics is a small, tight world, but few U.S. physicists have even heard of Richter, though he is 42 years old and by his own account has been working in physics for 15 years. According to reports from Prague, Richter was a Sudetenland German who got his doctorate in 1935 from the German University of Prague. He studied under Professor Philipp G. Frank (now at Harvard), who remembers him vaguely as a so-so student. Beyond this, he left no trace in the records of science. To most physicists his claims sounded as suspicious as his credentials...