Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...recent events in Germany may or may not reflect any serious anti-Jewish sentiments of the whole German nation, but whatever the case may prove to be, the Germans are perfectly capable of treating the matter properly. Many of the people demanding severe measures against German "crackpots" tend too often to let American delinquents go free, owing to their youth, in spite of violations of more serious consequence than a brush and paint...
When a couple of young hoods of the tiny, neo-Nazi German Reich Party daubed swastikas on a Cologne synagogue last Christmas Eve, a sort of involuntary twinge stirred memories round the world. Surely not again? The rash of similar incidents that followed, in Germany and abroad, are now on the wane, but at week's end, with a vehemence rare in him. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went on the air with a remedy for anti-Semites in action: "I say to all my German fellow citizens, if you catch a ruffian anywhere, execute the punishment on the spot...
Then Adenauer said: "I turn to my German Jewish fellow citizens and say to them that they can be completely free of worry. This state stands behind them with its entire might. I guarantee this to them...
...sick manifestations of anti-Semitism in Germany had stirred abroad, particularly in Britain, and by the criticism that present-day Germany is spreading a "cover of silence" over Nazi misdeeds of 20 years ago while ex-Nazis are turning up in high places, in both East and West German governments. Among prominent officials with a Nazi past in Bonn...
...were supposed to be in costume. But I was wearing a brown striped suit with a black arm band. I was going to tell the lady that I had been at Versailles and now was dispatched to accompany President Wilson's casket. My date, I fancied, was German--I had met her in Paris--and couldn't get too unhappy about Wilson's death. But when we got to the dance, this lady puffed up her stomach and said 'How could you dare to come to the dance looking like that.' I stared at her right in the ear, glanced...