Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True to the pact in its own fashion, the army soon settled the immediate Communist threat by marching shock troops into Berlin. When Adolf Hitler and his beer-hall fanatics flared up in their 1923 Putsch, the army ground it out in the Munich gutters. Later the officer corps began to think it could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung...
Another prominent Frenchman who feels the same way is Edouard Daladier, the old appeaser of Munich, who belongs to the moderately right-wing Radical Socialists. The French Communists used to have no epithets harsh enough for Daladier ("gravedigger" and "traitor" were among the mildest), but L'Humanité, the Communist daily, is now respectfully calling him "Monsieur Daladier." Neither Daladier nor De Gaulle has any Communist leanings; for the purposes of the Communists, it is better that they...
...boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier "The Man of Munich...
Last week Joda was one of a ragged band of 67 bitterly disillusioned Israelis who, fleeing their land of promise, had been caught smuggling themselves into, of all places, Germany. At Munich's Camp Fohrenwald, last remaining German D.P. camp for stateless Jews (where the feeling against the returners was high), Joda told his story: "When we got to Israel, I was told I was too old to be a butcher any more. I was put to work in a quarry. We were not beaten or mistreated, but otherwise things were not too different from life in the [concentration...
German authorities haled the immigrants into court and gave them each a suspended sentence of ten days for illegal entry. But, said a Munich police officer, "we have no prejudice, least of all against these poor people." From Israel, which is now losing more settlers than it is taking in (34,000 have left to seek their fortunes elsewhere since Israel became a state), came harsher words. "Emigrants have no title to sympathy," said Finance Minister Levi Eshkol. "Those who found sufficient funds for sea passage could have done quite well here with the energy and money used to arrange...