Word: flensburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rossia, something of a seagoing refugee herself, has sailed under three flags in eight years. Built at Hamburg in 1938 as the German Patria, she was taken over by the Allies at Flensburg in May 1945, used as living quarters for a SHAEF mission, then became the British Empire Welland. In an allocation of tonnage between the Big Powers, she passed to Russia this year...
Then Ed Kennedy, A.P. boss in Europe and veteran of 13 years with the A.P., got word that the Germans had announced the surrender over the Flensburg radio. He tried to reach Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's bumbling press chief, finally got to the chief U.S. censor. "I give you warning now,'' said Ed Kennedy, "that I am going to release the story. I see no further reason for SHAEF to withhold...
...Sheridan Downey announced that General Eisenhower had reviewed the case and "removed any bar" to Kennedy's reaccrediting as an Army correspondent. Into the Congressional Record went: 1) a memo from Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, ex-SHAEF chief of staff, which said the Germans had made their Flensburg broadcast under Allied orders; 2) a War Department letter fixing its time as an hour and 54 minutes ahead of Kennedy's release...
After a last drunken, hysterical broadcast, Joyce hid in a Flensburg hotel until he was shooed out by British soldiers, who thought he was a German. Later, on a road leading to Denmark, he met two British officers who were gathering firewood. Joyce could not resist the temptation to show off his ripe Oxonian accent...
...Allies were less successful in coping with another once-secret Nazi weapon, according to a German submarine commander at Flensburg last week. He said that the acoustic torpedo (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943), fitted with a microphone-controlled steering apparatus which made it follow the sound of a ship's propellers, proved 90% more effective than older models...