Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North & South. Previously, German industry, its order books full, turned up its nose at armament orders. Fritz Berg, president of the Federation of German Industry, said "Never again." But in a speech a month ago, he changed his tune: "We see no reason why military contracts should be handed to foreign firms when German industry can handle them just as well." The big Henschel locomotive and truck-building firm has just contracted to make tanks, already manufactures Hispano-Suiza armored troop carriers under license. In fact, close to half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once...
Fritz Sänger, 57, was absolutely right: after ten years, he was out as chief editor of D.P.-A.-and by last week the West German press bristled with charges that his firing was for reasons that were political, not professional...
...purge of Sänger rankled West German papers of widely varying political persuasions. "Scandalous," cried the non-partisan Protestant weekly Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent...
Hans Holbein's first portrait of Henry VIII was a miniature, done in 1537 to win the King's good graces. Four hundred years later German Industrialist Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza bought the panel from Britain's Earl Spencer. Over loud protests from the London art world, he carried it off triumphantly to his villa on the Swiss side of Lake Lugano. Reproduced full-scale opposite, the picture smoothly reveals the great and terrible monarch in all his bejeweled, beplumed, begorged splendor. But Holbein at his most flattering could not help penetrating...
...Abbie were married in the fall of 1945 and settled down in suburban Silver Spring. With war's end, Van Allen had no further interest in fuses or weapons. He wanted to get back to studying cosmic rays. He learned that the U.S. Army had captured nearly 100 German V-2s and was planning to fire them at White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., with sand instead of explosives in their warheads. Van Allen, along with several other scientists, was offered the privilege of substituting instruments for the sand...