Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The boy who wanted to teach had found his true vocation. In 1949 Strauss was elected to the first postwar Bundestag. At 33, he was the leader of Bavaria's delegation by virtue of his party post. "Anyone who wants a weapon in his hand," he said in one...
It was then Allied occupation policy not only to enforce total disarmament of a nation that had thrice in 70 years invaded its neighbors, but to re-educate Germans to hate militarism. The Com munist invasion of Korea changed all that. The danger that limited war could start in Europe...
Crashing the Cabinet. In the face of heckling by table-banging Socialists, Adenauer once faltered. Strauss leaped to his feet, bellowed the opposition into silence as he argued that Russia was out to absorb Germany and that Germany's only hope lay with alliance with the West. "However much...
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Democratic Boots. At home, Strauss had to combat a deep-seated antipathy to anything that smacked of militarism. Invited to join the fight against the new threat from the east, the first reaction of German youth was "Ohne mich" (Without me). Soldiers in uniform were booed in public places, and...