Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigration wanted more information on the stowaway. It got a hair-raising reply: "Re telegram 10th. Stowaway Gerhart Eisler, German, disembarking Gdynia." Was it the Gerhart Eisler-the chubby little Comintern agent who had been called the No. 1 U.S. Communist...
...second slogan of the week was, "German unity." Considerably more aggressive on this subject, the same issue of New Times denounced the West German State as "colonial in character." In Germany's Russian zone, the Reds drummed up some 10 million people to elect a "People's Congress"-a me-too counterweight to the West German Federal Republic...
...reply to the Russians, the West had a slogan of its own. The slogan was "freedom." The West wanted German unity, too, but only on democratic terms. It certainly wanted peace, but not at any price. Said Britain's Ernest Bevin: "We may even be called 'comrades' again. You never know." Then he added grimly that Russia was still talking peace while carrying on a "policy of promoting unsettlement all around...
Shortly after Eisler's speaking appearance here February 21, officials of the John Reed Club invited the German Communist to pay a return visit to Harvard and tentatively scheduled the date for sometime this week. Such a return engagement by Eisler would probably have balanced the Club's books...
Student activities at Kobe are based somewhat on the American system. There is a student government association, and various clubs including a drama group, photography, political economy, French, and German clubs, and a group for the study of the Tea Ceremony...