Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans react far more sensitively to concrete displays of effectiveness than to evidences of moral purity. While the U.S. was losing, Germans doubted it would ever be able to help them against aggression in Germany. Many sought Rűckversicherung (reinsurance) by signing Communist peace petitions, buying ads in Communist newspapers, reviving connections with East Germans and Russians. After Inchon, however, Germans could visualize for the first time substantial U.S. reinforcements against the threat of 300,000 crack Russian troops across the Elbe River. The latest Korean disaster has now scared many Germans into the belief that the U.S. will...
Snapped Social Democratic Leader Kurt Schumacher: "Absolutely impossible." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had already declared: "America will get ... wholehearted cooperation . . . only when the German people no longer feel that they are a second-class power...
...piece German brass band my replace Smoker campaign posters as a feature attraction in the Union after Christmas vacation, if the Union Committee approves. Joseph J. Cacciotti '54, who formed the Yardling band, hopes to give weekly concerts from the balcony of the Union...
Cacciotti will conduct the group, which is composed of some of his freshman colleagues in the University Band. The German horn-blowers wish to perform for the freshmen during each Wednesday evening meal with programs of light classics...
Another time, Sullivan thought that all statues should go into the war time scrap drive-works of art included. He then introduced an order in the City Council demanding that the bronze statues in the Germanic Museum he seized and melted into scrap. He sincerely thought he was helping the war effort by this order, but he felt too that statues of German heroes should be melted anyway...