Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specifically, De Gaulle fears that an early summit would be largely concerned with Berlin and the German problem, and that on these issues it would be Britain and the U.S. that would feel the public pressure to make concessions, not Russia. He does not believe Russia has paid the price of admission yet: "Favorable signs should develop in the course of the coming months which the debate in the U.N. and the combination of circumstances in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Africa will provide the opportunity to confirm...
When the immigrant ship Castel Felice docked in Melbourne one breezy day last week, 63 suntanned German girls paraded down the gangplank. Like 74 "flying fraeu-leins" who arrived by chartered plane a few days earlier, they were marriageable girls brought in from West Germany by the Australian government at the demand of members of a powerful new Australian pressure group: bachelors, among the thousands of European immigrants, who have a hard time finding someone to marry in a sparsely settled land where men still outnumber women...
Strictly Continental. On Sydney buses and Brisbane trams, German and Italian accents now mingle with the cockney-like drawl of Old Australia; a ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread...
...advancing German army in 1939 released Bandera from a Polish jail, and he slipped across the Russian border to organize anti-Soviet resistance. Two years later, when the Wehrmacht attacked Russia, Bandera's partisans fought the retreating Russians and hopefully proclaimed an independent Ukraine. The occupying Nazis scoffed at the idea, and Bandera's men took on the Germans in turn. Tricked into a conference with the Gestapo in 1941, Bandera was arrested and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
...applying for one to Australia--little competition. Then, of course, there was a white Fulbright to be filled out in triplicate; not a real Fulbright at all, he corrected himself, but a Foreign Government Grant. Vag flipped a dime to determine whether it would be the French or German government that would be honored by his request; Franklin Roosevelt came up on top, and France won. "La douce France," he murmured, "nation de destinee, patrie...