Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Lyman R. Bradley, Harvard '20, is an expert in Eighteenth Century Anglo-German literary relationships. He came to New York University in 1924 as a lecturer in German and became an associate professor in 1932. Later, Bradley was named chairman of the German Department...
...story of how Joe Parkson, a lame vet, played by Robert Ryan, stalks a prosperous contractor (Van Heflin) who was his senior officer when their plane was forced down during the war and the crew thrown into a German concentration camp. Parkson and ten others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only...
...Four Foreign Ministers who meet in Parts today in seek a German settlement may seize a favorable opportunity to explore a broader armistice in the cold war, diplomats said yesterday...
...quite possible that the meeting which begins today in Paris will also end in failure. There is certainly more skepticism in the West now than there was in 1947. But there does exist a possibility of agreement between the Big Four on the German problem: that possibility must be exploited to the fullest by the United States, Great Britain, and France, for the present uneasy condition of a divided Germany is a major roadbloc in the path to some sort of peaceful settlement of the East-West conflict...
...second phase of "the German problem" is economic. Trade between East and West in Europe is meager, clearly to the detriment of both sides. Now that the Foreign Ministers are going to discuss Germany, they will doubtless talk about trade as well. If arrangements can be made to foster the exchange of eastern German raw materials and foodstuffs for industrial products of the western zones, it would be a wholesome beginning to a general relaxing of the unofficial dual blockade of the Continent, and that in itself would ease the "cold war" tensions in jittery Europe...