Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose, for example, that tomorrow the U.S., Britain and France should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
Whether the U.S. and the Russians sat down at a conference table would matter a lot less than whether the U.S. could, in the next few months, assume a bold leadership to get Western Union moving and to work out a German policy that would fit in with Western Union...
...Britain's Ernest Bevin was unsmiling and the nervous twitch at the right corner of his mouth was more pronounced than ever. France's Georges Bidault (about to lose his job, partly because he had lost popularity by going along with the U.S. on a program of German recovery) made his points tensely, striking the table with the edge of his hand. The Dutch host-chairman, Baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, fiddled nervously with his papers. Luxemburg...
...whole uranium-mining area of Jáchymov is now more or less in the hands of the Russians. They have struck new veins of ore. Only German prisoners are working in the mines; their numbers are estimated...
...Door. In his 42 years, Antal Dorati has faced many a crisis and weathered them all. After he graduated from the Budapest Conservatory, where he worked under both Bartók and Kodály (TIME, July 19), he began to conduct in provincial German towns in his early 20s. Once, when he assured the doorman at Miinster's opera house that he was its new director, the doorman laughed in the boy's face, refused to let him in until a city official arrived to identify him. His next big job-and the one that eventually brought...