Word: germane
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Within Europe itself, NATO's policymakers confront a historic new fact that would have seemed incredible at NATO's birth in 1949. Only 15 years after Hitler's death, a new German army has taken its place as the pivot of Western defense in Europe. With half a million French troops tied down in Algeria, the Germans are already the strongest European force on the Continent. In two or three years time, the West German Bundeswehr will match if not surpass in might all the other NATO armies in Europe combined, including the powerful U.S. Seventh Army...
Nuclear NATO. Only five years ago, the new German Bundeswehr accepted its first recruits. Today the Bundeswehr has some 280,000 men, and by the end of next year will be at a planned strength of 340,000. Eleven of the army's projected twelve divisions have been activated, and the twelfth will be next month. Seven have already been committed to NATO, and the rest will be next year...
BUSCH-REISINGER: "Two Centuries of Danish Deep Sea Research Through Dec. 30. "German Graph Art from the Late Middle Ages to Reformation." Through...
Instead of asking for a numerical score, Brown and Cornell require students to take a year of literature after they attain an intermediate stage--comparable to French C or German C. The elementary language courses at Cornell differ from those in the College by running eight hours weekly, instead of three or four...
Died. Dirk Jan de Geer, 89, Netherlands ex-Premier, who after the German invasion of his country in 1940 briefly headed a London government-in-exile, later returned to The Netherlands, where he spent the rest of the war, came close enough to collaborating with the Nazis to draw a one-year suspended prison sentence for high treason in 1947; in Soest...