Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact of the treason trials of Hungary's Laszlo Rajk, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky and the American Noel Field. Charging his rival with "political blindness" in having once befriended Field. Ulbricht seized Dahlem in May 1953. At first Dahlem was jailed, then sent to an East German hospital for observation. Dahlem's fortune ebbed further in 1954 when his son Robert fled to the West. Dahlem was ordered to the Soviet Union for a "rest." Since that time, the face of Russian Communism, which once glared at the world through the single, impassive mask of Stalin...
Last week, in an hour-long speech well larded with what Germany's anti-Communists call Partei Chinesisch (party Chinese), East Germany's Party Boss Walter Ulbricht got around to announcing the new look in East German Communism. The Ulbricht speech included the now mandatory apology to Tito, a helping of discreet selfcriticism, and the rehabilitation of a few old victims. The first of these (who may not have been Ulbricht's own choice) was his old rival, Franz Dahlem. "The conditions under which the investigation of Comrade Dahlem was conducted," said Ulbricht, "have ceased to exist...
...that Ulbricht counts on the fact that Dahlem, who suffers from a heart ailment, appears to have aged considerably. But it remains a fact that Dahlem would be a natural choice for party leadership should the Russians try to reorganize East German Communism without unpopular Walter Ulbricht...
Across Alberta's fertile grainlands, no farmers work their soil with greater diligence or more fruitfulness than the Hutterites, the bearded and devout descendants of German-speaking immigrants who fled Russia in 1874, seeking freedom to practice their austere faith. But Alberta's 4,000 Hutterites have been increasingly cramped by a provincial law restricting their land purchases and urgently want room to expand. Last week some of them seemed to have found their promised land in the Big Bend country of the Columbia River in the state of Washington...
...finally made official. In addition to the expected provisions, e.g., the aviation company will run Studebaker-Packard under terms of a management contract, Curtiss-Wright revealed that it is negotiating a contract with West Germany's Daimler-Benz A.G. that will give Studebaker-Packard access to new German engineering developments and may ultimately result in the U.S. auto firm's distributing Daimler-Benz cars and trucks...