Word: metzing
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Died. Lieut. General (ret.) Stafford LeRoy ("Red") Irwin, 62. onetime (1950-52) commander of U.S. forces in Austria, commander of the 5th Division, which formed the southern arc of the pincer that captured the French city. Metz, in World War II; of a coronary occlusion; in Asheville...
...JEAN DE METZ, squire, one of the men who accompanied her to Chinon to see the Dauphin (later Charles VII): "I said to her, 'What are you doing here, my dear?' . . . and the Maid answered me: 'Before mid-Lent I must be with the King, even if I have to wear my legs down to the knees. For there is no one on earth, be he king or duke or the King of Scotland's daughter or anyone else, who can restore the kingdom of France, and he will have no help except through...
...corners and stay quiet. The French recall what happened after Hitler won the Saar from them in another referendum 20 years ago. "German nationalism is looking for its first success in the Saar," wrote Marcel Edmond Naegelen, onetime French governor of Algeria, in Le Républican Lorrain of Metz (the formerly German capital of Lorraine). "If Germany succeeds, she won't stop there, and she will want to succeed elsewhere in the West." At any rate, onlookers waited uncomfortably for a vote that is crucial to the future not only of the 900-square-mile Saar...
...Card. The FBI, in rechecking McCarthy's 81 cases, had turned up a new witness, Harold W. Metz, who had been a graduate student with Lorwin at Cornell. In 1935 they met again in Washington, and Metz lived for a few months as a paid roomer in the Lorwins' apartment. Metz, a onetime researcher for the Republican National Committee (and now on the staff of the Hoover Commission) told the FBI that one evening some "strange-looking people" were leaving the apartment as he entered. Asked about them, Lorwin said there had been a Communist-cell meeting...
Says a current German version: "The German public passionately called for the return of Alsace-Lorraine . . . The German general staff also called for the annexation of Metz. The population of the ceded areas was just as firm in wanting to remain with France . . . Bismarck was fully aware that annexation would be a great burden for Germany's future, but gave in to the military arguments...