Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's decision to withdraw to the comparative quietude of his nation's presidency-a decision he acknowledged had been made quickly-symbolically ended an era in postwar German history. More important, it laid bare the long-mounting restlessness of his political followers raising important questions for the future. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Old Man Steps Aside...
...speech Grotewohl declared: "The question of reunification is an internal German affair and will not be a matter for debate at Geneva...
...Langer's division of the Office along with H. Stuart Hughes, another of the six. He worked on political intelligence for about a year and then went to London in the winter. While on a courier mission in North Africa, his plane narrowly escaped destruction when a German aircraft crossed the Mediterranean, attacked, and wounded the gunner...
...Ford had his most interesting experience after V-E Day. In line with his work on political reorganization, he sat in on interviews with captured generals. His closest contact was with General Guderian, whose mind he characterizes as "naive politically, but brilliant and retentive." The former chief of the German General Staff provided for the trial of his colleagues...
...afternoon in July, 1945, Guderian requested permission to be taken for a drive through the German countryside. Agreeing, Ford--and a couple of soldiers--piled into a jeep and took him for a ride. All along the way, Germans stopped and came to attention when they saw the great man. "Had the war still been on," Ford muses, "we would have been court-martialed for this, but after the war we got information any way we could...