Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
...Quite Necessary?" Both Adenauer, in his smooth and sibilant manner, and Schumacher, in his sharp and strident way, railed at Allied "interference" in German affairs and especially at dismantling of German industrial plants. One-armed, one-legged Schumacher had to be helped up onto the rostrum (see cut), but his rhetoric was as vigorous as ever. Cried he last week: "The Allies have no right to condemn the entire German people because of Naziism. All European nations were for a time Nazi followers. Western EuroDe continued to conclude treaties with Hitler at a period when hundreds of thousands of German...
...this grating contradiction-and evident flashes of German insolence-might prove to be less important than the fact that the Communists had not been able to prevent the beginnings, however tenuous, of democracy in Germany. "I hope you'll pardon us for a lot of this talk," one German politician recently told an American official, "but in political campaigns such talk is quite necessary, nicht...
...Philadelphia advertising firm of Frank L. Howley & Associates, was full of black vengeance and pink optimism. Said the new boss of Military Government in Berlin's U.S. Sector: "If we bring food into Berlin, the only reason is that we don't want their rotten [German] corpses to infect our troops . . . The Russians have played their cards right across the board and all suspicion is gone." But the colonel learned better...
...McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome for armistice talks with Premier Pietro Badoglio...