Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third step was a bid for German participation in West Europe's defense. Acting for NATO, the Allied High Commissioners in Germany-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick and France's Andre Francois-Poncet-quickly conferred with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. After a five-hour meeting in the Petersberg, the conferees agreed 1) to discuss a new "political basis" for relations between Western Germany and the Western Allies, and 2) to organize a military committee* that would study "the scale and manner" of the German contribution to West Europe...
Eric Williams, whose book The Wooden Horse (TIME, Jan. 23) recounted the daring breaks by allied airmen from a German prison camp, found some fascinated listeners to his lecture on the science of escape. The audience: 400 inmates of Maidstone prison, near London...
...underlying weakness of the Brussels plan of action is French inaction. If the French rearm rapidly, they will have less cause to fear German rearmament. But the French government is so deeply committed to a "go slow" policy on French rearmament that there seems little chance of a speedup...
...German representatives, appointed last week, included Lieut. General Hans Speidel, once Rommel's chief of staff, and Lieut. General Adolf von Heussinger. Both had been arrested by the Gestapo after the discovery of the plot on Hitler's life in July...
...they boarded the chartered DC-3 that was to take them to Caracas for the holidays. The lads, aged 9 to 17, sons of prominent Caracas families, were students at Father Vélaz' Colegio de San Jose at Merida in western Venezuela; two were nephews of President German Suárez Flamerich. As they walked out to the plane in the midday heat, strapping, Chilean-born Father Vélaz waved goodbye...