Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French, the Vietnamese had been slow under Premier Huu's regime to join in the life-or-death fight against Red Rebel Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas. The Premier seemed more interested in nailing down Viet Nam's independence than in promoting a fighting partnership with the French. Bao Dai (and the French) thought the time had come for a stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first. Within hours of his accession, the new Premier announced...
Only seven years after its total defeat, its penance was ended, the penance which its conquerors had vowed to impose for half a century. Germany-the richest, most populous, most important two-thirds of it-had climbed from defeat through vassalage to partnership with its Western conquerors. Its "contract" with the Western allies provided a peace more generous than even the most hopeful German could have imagined in the graveyard days of 1945. Its European Defense compact with the Western neighbors so recently overrun by German Panzers gave West Germans the right to have Panzers again-and the soldiers, rifles...
Without a Name. By the usual standards of human feeling, West Germany's 48 million people should have been elated over their change of fortune. But in what passes for German civilization in A.D. 1952, usual standards do not apply. In the week that brought it freedom and partnership with the Western democracies, West Germany was afflicted with a fever of doubts, fears, misgivings and unsatisfied yearnings. It was a complex state of mind that defied diagnosis and eluded a label. It was not simply "neutralism" or "nationalism" or "contrariness" or the cynical fatalism of ohne mich (count...
...Schumacher's Socialists, the peace contract is only half a peace: a compromise between occupation and partnership. It leaves the precious Saar in French hands for now; it "petrifies the division of Germany." The German yearning for the reunion of East and West Germany is common to all Germans, from those who long for Adolf Hitler's resurrection to those who worship the ikons of Stalinism. But Kurt Schumacher has made it his chief political issue...
...Detroit one day in 1930, a partnership was formed between an ex-blacksmith and a mechanic. The blacksmith was Fred Fisher of the famed Fisher brothers; the mechanic was Harry Franklin Vickers, 31, who had invented a hydraulic steering device for autos. Fisher wanted to make the gadget, but he was 20 years ahead of his time; no automaker would...