Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
...Adolf Hitler's Germany, Sculptor Josef Thorak had a big job: official sculptor of the Third Reich. His huge statuary was to decorate the squares and public buildings of the city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
Against competition like Yale's Spence Cone, Gould Donahue, Jim Fuchs, and Vic Frank, Brown's Gil Borjeson, and Dartmouth's Al Reich, the Crimson weight-throwers will have a trying afternoon. Charlie Keith and Don Trimble should do well with the javelin. But Geoff Tootell and Al Wilson with the discus, Tootell and Trimble with the shot, and Eric Stromsted with the hammer will face the top men in the East...
...made a treaty with the Saar last month. That small territory, under French protectorate until a German peace treaty, leased its coal mines to France for 50 years in return for economic and political advantages. Western Germans claimed that the mines were German property--they belonged to the Third Reich--and that France had no right to make the treaty until a general European peace settlement. Both Kurt Schumacher, leader of the opposition Socialist Party and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, head of the Christian Democrats, complained. The Chancellor said, "German faith in the Allies has been severely damaged," be threatened...
Then Adenauer, echoed by most West German leaders, issued statements of bitter protest. Their position: before the war, the Saar mines were the property of the German government; the Allies turned over former Reich property to Adenauer's Bonn government; nobody else may legally lease them. On this basis, Adenauer expressed sharp disappointment with the Western powers. The Saar deal, he said, made it impossible for West German representatives to attend the proposed Council of Europe meetings in Strasbourg...