Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talking about the foreign affairs of others was in fact ideal for this purpose; Nehru could say exactly what he wanted, and the consequences were the responsibility of the others. In Bonn German Foreign Ministry officials persuaded flinty old West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to be obliging to Nehru, though the Chancellor scorns Nehru's way of thinking. Adenauer even went so far as to break his no-Sunday-engagements rule in order to take Nehru on a cruise up the castled Rhine. They met three times for four hours, and both stubborn men had the honesty...
Last March West Germany agreed to give Yugoslavia $74 million in World War II reparations and long-term loans. But now that Tito had gone to Moscow and talked about Germany's "two sovereign states," Bonn feared he was about to recognize the puppet East German regime. Despite private assurances that Tito would not do so, the Adenauer government last week pointedly allowed West Germany's Bundestag to adjourn for the summer without ratifying the Yugoslav treaty. "Blackmail," cried Yugoslavia's Politika, but West Germany is prepared to wait until Tito's assurances sound as loud...
...went forward to the copilot's seat and, holding the agent's gun at the pilot's temple, took charge of the plane. Somewhere in the skirmish he had lost his map, but spotting an airfield and some jeeps in what he guessed to be West German territory, Polyak brought the plane down. The field was a still-unfinished NATO air base at Ingolstadt...
...refugees thrust a bloody head out to ask where they were, West German police roared up to surround the plane. Communists and anti-Communists alike were gathered up in the gory shambles and carted off to a nearby hospital. As Hungary's Communist rulers set official radio channels buzzing with demands for the return of plane and passengers, two of the travelers who had known nothing of the plot to seize the airplane decided to join those who had planned it. Another, breathing the air of freedom, was restrained from asking for asylum only by the thought of what...
Forced to Flee. When he set up his Fromm Music Foundation four years ago, Paul Fromm was nourishing an ambition as old as his student days in Germany. The son of a prosperous wine grower, he early became an enthusiastic supporter of contemporary German music, was on the point of establishing a music foundation in his homeland when he was forced to flee the country during Hitler's pogroms of 1938. In the U.S. he prospered quickly, set up his own wine-importing firm and bought into several other businesses. By 1952 he was ready to turn his attention...