Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India. West German industrialists are eager to invest in India, he said-if they get 51% partnership in the capital of new industries. Indian private enterprise, he told Nehru, should have more freedom, and India should beware of "too much planning." Foreign investors want guarantees against "political risks...
When the Asians heard that Ludwig Erhard was coming, many of them expected to see an open purse. Was not Economics Minister Erhard the engineer of the West German recovery "miracle"? Was not West Germany so prosperous, its coffers so filled, its technicians so talented that it could give help to poorer nations...
...Japanese had hoped for German "cooperation" in recovering markets in Southeast Asia. They could expect competition instead. Said Erhard: "Competition is not an act of hostility, but a method of development: the more, the better. Japan has an important role to play in developing Southeast Asia, but she will find it quite a task. I have noted certain resistances to Japan in those countries...
...after the Soviet army entered Berlin in 1945, Red "Trophy Squads" began rounding up all known German museum men and forced them to show where the nation's art treasures were stored. About 1,500,000 art objects were crated posthaste, and shipped back to Moscow as "war booty...
...Guns of Navarone. Zanuck, who elevated his black-haired Lorelei from subterranean boites to stardom in The Roots of Heaven, angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have no control of any sort over her career." Greco may have given Zanuck that impression by accepting the lead in a British-German film against his advice. When he descended on her German location not long ago to demand script changes and shower presents, Greco purred by phone from her hotel room: "You can't come up. Wait there and I might come down." Then she went to bed, leaving Zanuck...