Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clad in a rumpled suit and a grubby mackintosh, stocky, tousle-haired Theodo: Blank, who is West Germany's defense boss, looks nothing like the traditional great-coated, heel-clicking Prussian militarist. As secretary of the Miners' Union, he once told an Allied general: "I know you generals. You're the biggest trade union in the world, and if I had my way I wouldn't let anybody who served in the old German army back...
After the embarrassing discovery of some Prussian-style thinking on his own staff, Herr Blank went on the radio to reassure everyone that he is determined to revive German might for the European Defense Community without reviving German militarism. Details...
...Soldiers will get vocational training and be encouraged to vote. Says Blank: "Democracy can be defended only by democrats and freedom only by those who experience it themselves...
Dial "M" for Murder (by Frederick Knott) is that always welcome visitor, an unusually satisfying thriller. Playwright Knott is not only more ingenious than most members of the current Spine Trust, but being British is more urbane as well. Maurice Evans has abandoned battlements and blank verse to play a dinner-jacketed modern villain, while John Williams, as a Scotland Yard inspector, sees justice done with engaging suavity...
Saper's committee left three blank lines on the charity card in order to facilitate write...