Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German Fears. The jostling was most apparent in Konrad Adenauer's actions. Originally, he was to meet Ike in London after the President had seen the others, but as he explained to his advisers: "I would either have been compelled to accept what the other three had agreed on in their previous meetings, or, if I disagreed with their plans, I would be saddled with the odium of disturber of the peace." So Eisenhower will see Adenauer first in Bonn next week. In anticipation, the President's personal pilot, Colonel William A. Draper, test-landed...
...with Eisenhower but not negotiation, and a main topic would be Germany-but not Germany's reunification: "There are no hopes of unifying East and West Germany in the near future, consequently one must proceed from the real state of affairs, from the fact that there are two German states." Answering another question, he magnanimously assured everyone that Russia will attempt no change in Berlin's status so long as talks continue...
...always be a stranger among the people," Knut Hamsun once wrote prophetically. Seven years ago Norway's greatest soth century writer died an outcast, . reviled as a quisling by his own countrymen. "A more eminent disciple of Nietzsche than any German" in Thomas Mann's judgment, Knut Hamsun was a peasant's son who grew up in Norway's far north, wandered as a hobo through Illinois and the Dakotas of the '80s, and buried himself in a remote corner of Norway to write novels (Growth of the Soil, Pan, Hunger) of great depth...
...Blamed the Hungarian uprising on reactionaries "at the service of German Nazis," and thanked Russia for "saving Hungarians from terrible bloodshed...
Little was heard of the tunic for centuries, but in 1196 a seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...