Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin will not be intimidated," said Brandt. Without consulting anybody -or having to-Brandt made himself a spokesman for Berlin. Bouncing back from momentary dismay at Secretary Dulles' remark that the Allies might accept East German control officials as "agents" of the Russians, he cried: "We do not release our Allies from responsibility to defend Berlin with force." If the Allies soften their position, said Brandt, "the West will end up like an artichoke, stripped of its influence, leaf by leaf." Asked if West Berlin wanted to become a free state, he snapped: "Another Danzig? Never...
Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop. 52 million), the Soviet-rigged German Democratic Republic, with its grey, ruin-strewn cities and 17½ million sullen, shabby subjects, looks a sorry state. It is a poor thing, but Khrushchev's own. He is determined to hang...
Trickle Down. A little bit of the new trade money has trickled down to East German workers. A West German magazine has compared East Germany's latter-day progress to the West German level of 1949 ("Eat your fill and dress modestly"). This probably gives them now the highest living standard behind the Iron Curtain. The ineffable East German Communist Boss, Walter Ulbricht, a Soviet citizen, now proclaims the inevitable propaganda slogan: "Catch Up with West Germany in Per Capita Production...
...towns in Europe recalled the disastrous traditional enmity between France and Germany more strongly than the pleasant spa of Bad Kreuznach (pop. 33,000) in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Bad Kreuznach's ornate Kurhaus, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg planned German operations on the Western Front during the last two years of World War I; from the same building, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt directed the Wehrmacht's withdrawal from France in World War II. Last week in the salon of the Kurhaus, France's Charles de Gaulle, who fought the Germans in both wars, raised a glass...
...records on the Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about Germany with a retinue that includes a tutor and a private secretary...