Word: theodor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place of old-fashioned Zionism, Prinz called for a broad new U.S. grouping that would accept "the principle of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism: 'We are a people, one people' "-whether in Israel or the U.S. This principle, said Prinz, "expresses a reality fully consistent with American democracy and our country's pluralistic society. It is a fact of life. It is how our neighbors feel about us. It is how we feel about ourselves...
...West Germany, Acheson's proposal met with sharp resistance. "Believe me," observed then-President Theodor Heuss, "at first it was not very easy to explain to the man in the street that it was his duty to do military service, after he had been told by propaganda that his previous military service had been bordering on criminal action." By this time, Franz Josef Strauss had observed that the man to get along with in German politics was Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer, under Allied pressure, began talking up German rear mament, Strauss did too. It looked like a road...
Died. Max Theodor Felix von Laue, 80, German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of X rays; of injuries in an auto accident; in West Berlin. Though he did atomic research in the early days of World War II, Von Laue quit in 1943 in protest against the Nazi regime. In 1957 he was spokesman for 18 German physicists who opposed equipping West German forces with tactical nuclear weapons...
...stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, come with three of his Cabinet Ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen's Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place since former President Theodor Heuss unveiled the memorial seven years...
...Refugee Minister Theodor Oberlaender, 54, who was a political officer with the Wehrmacht's Nightingale Battalion of pro-German Ukrainian nationalists when they entered Lvov in 1941. Before an international commission in The Hague this month, Oberlaender denied a charge that he ordered the massacre of 2,400 Ukrainians, Poles and Jews at Lvov, declared that the Russians did it before he got there...