Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the conservatives dissipated their strength in quibblings, the Communists threw their 100-vote bloc solidly to Le Troquer. Crowed the Reds in a special victory communique: "By their vote the Communists intend to show their will to fight with the Socialist workers to pre vent ratification of the Bonn agreements and the Treaty of Paris [EDC]." Next day Socialist Le Troquer, a good anti-Communist who is regarded as "more for than against" the EDC, tried to shake off this unilateral attempt to recreate a Popular Front. Said he in his acceptance speech, as the Reds sat silent...
...aircraft, able to take off and land from rooftops, parks or squares in the heart of the biggest cities, are already eliminating that most exasperating aspect of fixed-wing air transport, the long surface trip to outlying airports. The Belgian airline, Sabena, is operating a helicopter service between Brussels, Bonn, Lille, Maastricht and Rotterdam. Helicopter services are carrying passengers and mail in and around New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment the suburban...
Chief Justice William Clark of the United States Appeals Court in Germany was named head of a three-man group to investigate the wire tapping reports in Bonn...
...expects to raise twelve German divisions for the defense of Western Europe, proposed that the ex-soldiers should shine up their Iron Crosses and pin them on again. But be sure to remove the tiny metal swastikas that decorate all Iron Crosses issued in World War II, said the Bonn government; Nazi emblems are still verboten...
...which will join the strength of Germany to the Western allies through NATO." ¶ Germany is welcome to "a place among the great powers of the world," but, "as one a large part of whose life has been spent in conducting war against [the Reich]," Sir Winston urged the Bonn government to remember the famous maxim: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Presumably, he was advising Bonn to watch out for its domestic foes. ¶ The U.S. got a big Churchillian bouquet, and a homily on its past mistakes. "Had the U.S. taken before the First World...