Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steal peace as a weapon of propaganda. From the time both the U.S. and Russia exploded the H-bomb, Mollet has "never believed" in the threat of a major Soviet attack, and in his opinion the position the U.S., Britain and France took at Geneva last summer, in putting German reunification ahead of disarmament...
...official German reiteration of its devotion to Western policy, the fact is that in West Germany, nobody is keen to join the new German army. Business wants no new defense industry to dislocate the country's roaring prosperity. Hardfisted Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer has decided that a mere 5.5% of the gross national product is a sufficient contribution for defense costs, and last week refused again to kick in the $760 million that Bonn has hitherto paid for support of the Allied troops who constitute the country's only defense...
Questioned by West Germans (to see whether they should be admitted as bona fide refugees), most East Germans say the reason for their flight is economic: they are tired of eking out a grim living in the East, and have heard about West Germany's booming full employment. But political reasons increase the flow: East Germans whose ears are attuned to Communist dialectic concluded that the main message of the recent East German Communist Party congress is that reunification is farther away than ever, and that the Communists are bent on building up East Germany as a separate satellite...
...Citadel of Learning is neither particularly original nor notably well argued. Two of the three essays are from speeches given last year when the German ambassador was apparently more concerned with tanks than textbooks. They attempt in a rather general way to reassert the virtues of independent research and rigorous instruction. The third essay is written especially for the book, but it cannot be accused of originality, since it consists almost entirely of rehabilitated Conant programs, most of which have been better stated elsewhere...
...Switzerland, where the estimated cost of living is $120 a month, including tuition, universities are mainly occupied with giving summer language courses in the quatro-lingual state. The universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchatel teach in French. The canton schools of St. Gallen, Winterthur, and Chur offer German language courses. In southern Switzerland at Bellinzona, the school gives Italian instruction...