Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht began a state visit to Poland last week, his special rolled into Warsaw 22 minutes late. "Polish sloppiness," growled an outraged German Communist. No less sourly, many a citizen of Warsaw noted that the black-red-and-gold flags scattered throughout Warsaw in Ulbricht's honor were the first German flags to fly over the city since Hitler's occupation troops were driven...
Awkward as all this was, State Visitor Ulbricht and his hosts did their dogged best to ignore the fact that even 13 years of joint servitude to Moscow has not wiped out the ancient hostility between Poles and Germans. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, bundled up against Warsaw's icy wind, greeted Ulbricht with the promise that "we will do all in our power to strengthen the international position of the German Democratic Republic.'' In return, Walter Ulbricht declared that he brought with him "the indestructible friendship of the German people...
...Poland, beyond the so-called Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some 38,660 sq. mi. of former German territory, including coal deposits richer than those of the Ruhr...
...Winston Churchill gave their approval to the idea of "moving Poland West," and when the Polish government in exile demurred, Churchill bluntly told the House of Commons that henceforth Poland "must honestly follow a policy friendly to Russia." When protests were raised over Polish plans to expel the entire German population of the "recovered territories"-between 4,800,000 and 5,800,000 Germans were ultimately driven out of the area, mostly to West Germany-Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee declared that the Germans "are not entitled to appeal on the basis of moral laws that they have disregarded...
HUGE RUHR MERGER is expected to link two former members of German steel trust dismantled in 1948. August Thyssen-Hütte (sales: $430 million) has asked permission from European Coal and Steel Community to buy Phoenix Rheinrohr (sales: $390 million). Authority will probably approve. Company would rank as Europe's biggest steelmaker, producing 5,000,000 tons a year, or 25% of West German supply, 10% of European Common Market output...