Word: nein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rotterdam, Veeridam (ah, but the crew is cranky), Grande Dame (the liner she's), Rooseveltdam, Hotdam, Goddamn. Aphasia, Valeteria (founded in 1926), Ablaut, Umlaut, Nein and Ja (freight only...
...polls had barely closed this week when the answer began to appear: a loud and disturbing nein. By a margin of more than two to one, Saarlanders, German-speaking and German-oriented, had rejected a plan giving them political autonomy under the new Western European Union (TIME, Oct. 17) and continued postwar economic union with France...
...instead was not clear. In their minds, the Saarlanders were choosing reunion with their native Germany, though they had no chance of such a choice. Actually, they were choosing to begin a long and tortuous quarrel within the Western family. France warned in advance that if the Saar voted nein, French control would go on as before. Sincere men in Paris and Bonn had done their best, but now the old wound was open and throbbing again...
...three months such pro-German rallies have exploded almost nightly in the French-controlled, German-speaking industrial border basin of the Saar. They are a prelude to decision: next week the Saar's 960,000 citizens will freely vote, ja or nein, whether to accept the statute which French and German statesmen finally agreed on last year as the best means of taking a 1,000-year-old quarrel out of politics until a final World War II peace treaty is sealed. Should the Saarlanders vote ja, their borderland, which has changed hands four times in the last three...
...Meaning of No. If the Saarlanders should vote nein, the French say that the Saar would simply remain French-controlled territory as before, its riches funneled into the French economy. But the Saar nationalists, should they win, could not be expected to retire into the 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...