Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tough talk from Germany was certain to increase French sentiment against German rearmament. The constructive way for France to resolve her fears would be to move ahead with a rapid French rearmament. But the French government showed no sign of doing that-and Washington made no move to hurry the French...
...European defense, that his chief of staff would be the Army's top planner, scholarly Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. Eisenhower's appointment was long overdue. A meeting of the twelve North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers was scheduled for Brussels about Dec. 20, to seek agreement on German arming. This would give Secretary of State Dean Acheson a chance-if he wanted one-to prod the European governments into speed. So far, the Europeans who had been moaning that the U.S. was neglecting Europe for Asia seemed strangely inactive about their own defense in the little time that...
...month-old underground organization directed from West Berlin. The Investigating Committee of Free Lawyers of the Soviet Zone was founded by Dr. Theo Friedenau, 39-year-old lawyer, who has a 500,000 East mark Communist price tag on his head. His organization of 3.000 East German lawyers, judges and public officials exposes Soviet zone perversions of justice and tries to frighten Communist officials by reporting their crimes to Friedenau in Berlin...
Last week, Friedenau got his best chance yet to nail Red lies when the East German Communists imprisoned seven Thuringian bank officials after a trial at Erfurt on trumped-up charges of "sabotage." Friedenau knew all about...
...when he composed The Flying Dutchman, Tannähuser, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde, and they hardly reveal a new Richard Wagner. Rather, they amplify the old one-the "Archegotist" who called on his friends to pick up the checks and often gave them his scorn in return, the German genius who believed the world owed him both a living and its unbounded love, and offered it great operas in return...