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Several West German Communist papers, warned by the North Rhine-Westphalia press commission to curb their tongues or risk suspension, were trying out a bowdlerized brand of Newspeak this week. In place of standard party-line invective against the Bonn government and the Western Powers, editors were substituting strategically located five-dot blanks. Sample from Düsseldorf's Freies Volk: "The Prague District Organization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia unanimously condemns the disgraceful action on the part of the representatives of the . . . . . Bonn Government which stands in the service of Truman's. . . . . and is trying...
After a visit to Spain, Major General Charles Willoughby (ret.), longtime intelligence officer for General MacArthur, announced that he would rent an apartment and live in Madrid. Said he: "I feel much safer in Madrid behind the Pyrenees than in Paris behind the Rhine...
Before each meeting, the two advisers, Seymour O. Simches, instructor in Romance Languages, and Robert F. Metzdorf, Cataloguer in Houghton Library, choose the particular type of wine to be tasted; Rhone, Bordeaux, Burgundy, or Rhine wine, and order it from either Boston or New York importers...
Plotting Ways Out. If any two men could bury the age-old Franco-German rivalries, it was Schuman the German-speaking French Catholic from the Moselle Valley, and Adenauer the French-speaking German Catholic from the Rhine Valley only 75 miles away. With a prod from Acheson and Eden, they sat down to reconcile the conditions imposed on them by their own parliaments...
...connoisseurs would open their Moselles before three years. Andre Simon believes that the best Moselle is a very young Moselle; Maurice Healey, following Professor Saintabury, will drink a four-year Moselle, but none older. It is possible that the writer of your article was thinking of a Hock, or Rhine wine, grown somewhat to the east of the Moselles, which does have a somewhat to the east of the Moselles, which does have a somewhat greater staying power; but it must be remembered that no white wine, not even a Montrachet, can really be said to improve with...