Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weak central government that it could never properly govern. The Socialists were equally mad at their fellow Germans in the Christian Democratic Union, which was stringing along with the plans for a weaker government. At a Socialist meeting in Hannover last week, gaunt, one-armed, one-legged party leader Kurt Schumacher lashed out at the Western Powers as well as the Christian Democrats. "The Socialist Party," he shouted, "is a party of cooperation, not a party of submissiveness...
...Time for Decision. The most trenchant analysis of what is happening I heard from a one-armed, one-legged man who is leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party. Kurt Schumacher is Germany's toughest, most impassioned anti-Communist fighter. Says he: "Ever since Bismarck, resurgent nationalism in Germany has sooner or later looked toward
...Kurt Schumacher's deputy at Bonn, burly Carlo Schmid, probably the ablest political leader in West Germany, told me: "Whether any of us likes it or not, one thing is true in Europe today-its future depends on the workers of Germany. Russia cannot win them yet-but the West can lose them ... If they should ever desert the West and slide into Bolshevism, then you need no longer worry about what France's workers will do. Then you can have all the Atlantic pacts you can write. Stalin will need no Molotov or Vishinsky, no Cominform...
...climbed up on a platform overlooking Kurt Baum, In the middle of some aria, Mr. Barrone yelled at us, "Raise your spears, boys!" We raised our spears. Then he yelled, "Wave your spears, boys!" We waved our spears...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Carmen, with Risë Stevens, Nadine Conner, Kurt Baum and Robert Merrill...