Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capture lay a bizarre story-only partly exposed last week by tight-lipped Justice officials-that in spots seemed to reflect equal doses of Alec Guinness and E. Phillips Oppenheim. Aided by his invaluable surface nonentity, Rudolf Abel had been a successful spy since 1927, spoke fluent English, French, German, was a good hand at electronics, mechanical engineering, photography. With a fake U.S. birth certificate in his pocket, Abel slipped into the U.S. in 1948 at "an unknown point" along the Canadian border. At home in Russia he left his wife, son, married daughter-possibly as insurance of his loyalty...
...Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where in the family Volkswagen. Dutchmen and Danes by the thousands were leaving their lowland homes for a brief, refreshing holiday in Germany's nearby...
...such strongholds of the Savile Row sack suit as Claridge's and the Dorchester. The harsh accents of Sydney and Melbourne bounced almost unnoticed off the walls of pubs. Scots sextons helped citizens of Canada and the U.S. track down ancestors in their own quiet graveyards, while hairy German legs bristled stoutly beneath their Lederhosen at the changing of the guard at Buckingham or St. James's Palace. Headwaiters were busy guiding visiting Frenchmen through the mysteries of an English menu -which in virtually every good London restaurant is printed in what is presumed to be French...
Emil Kroher of the Federal Republic's Agency for Democratic Education said that whoever wins in the German elections this September, "Germany will belong to the free world." Kroher outlined three goals to insure Germany's future adherence to democratic ideals. He called for "a confrontation with the past," education in democracy, and "information about the Bolshevik reality...
Gerhard Weck, lawyer and newspaper correspondent, pointed with pride to Germany's rapid economic recovery which he attributed not to miracles but "a series of fortuitous events" including the Marshall Plan and the currency reform instituted by the Allied occupation. He praised policies of the German government which encouraged private investment and a free competetive market system by wise tax laws and an anti-cartel policy...