Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table. In big red letters it said, "Scared to sign? That's the McCarthy issue!" On the left of the table were mounted newspaper clippings, with appropriate lines marked in heavy red pencil. On the right was a pile of signed petitions, in the middle a fresh, blank petition and a ball point pen. And squarely behind the table sat the one in brown--ready to educate the public...
...been working in Bonn, hidden discreetly behind the dirty red brick walls of an obscure building and an even obscurer and Teutonically confusing name: Office of the Federal Chancellor's Appointee for Questions Arising Out of the Increase in Allied Troops. For short, it is called Bureau Blank, after its boss, a deliberate, round-faced ex-union official named Theodor Blank...
Under Civilian Blank, a group of former German generals and colonels have carefully worked out plans, strategy, even some of the tactics for the German armed forces, which, Western Parliaments willing, West Germany will contribute to the Atlantic alliance. Details of Bureau Blank's blueprint...
...pants tucked into laced boots. No more goose-step. Salutes only for generals, and for the commanding officer and top sergeant on day's first encounter. Off duty, civilian clothes allowed. "This will be a citizens' army," promises World War II Draftee Blank...
Command: President of the West German Republic (currently 70-year-old Theodor Heuss) will presumably be commander-in-chief, delegating authority to a civilian-defense minister (probably Blank). Number of generals: 35 to 40 (there were 1,400 in 1945). If and when German forces come under NATO, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery will supervise their training. In the field they will serve under NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther of the U.S., and his European ground-forces commander, Marshal Alphonse Juin of France. Timetable: If the go-ahead comes soon, the first West German...