Word: chers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Geiger's death in the tiny (1,000 sq. mi.) coal-rich Saar basin, the No. 1 trouble spot in Western Europe, set the Rhine River foaming with ancient controversy. On the German shore. Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher flatly accused the Saar's French bosses of "political murder." From the French bank came shouts of rage. "The Germans are up to their old tricks of 1938, when they accused the Poles of similar atrocities," snapped an unforgiving Quai d'Orsay staffer...
This week France's Communists were all set to welcome back "notre cher Maurice" as the Communist propaganda calls him. Out of the Warsaw plane stepped his wife Jeannette, but not our dear Maurice. Explained Communist L'Humanite: police may be waiting to arrest him if he returns. Although the government recently threatened to lift parliamentary immunity from Communist deputies, a more plausible explanation for Thorez' continued absence, apart from health, is the Kremlin's latest policy (as evidenced in the purging of Party Militants Marty and Tillon) of playing down open Communist activities in France...
...long faces. His 96 musicians gave him a party at which the eleven women of the orchestra put on a vivacious cancan. Cracked Monteux, "It took me 17 years to see what pretty legs they have." With enormous gusto, he knifed into a huge cake lettered "Au revoir, cher Maître." And he set straight one matter that has intrigued San Franciscans for years: "I make you a declaration. My hair, it is not dyed...
...small but vocal lobby had worked hard to reprieve the last seven "men in scarlet"; its efforts were backed by Bonn's Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher, leader of the nationalist German Free Democratic Party, Socialist Leader Dr. Carlo Schmid, and $12,000 of Bonn government funds. Twice the Department of State...