Word: theodore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bets Down. After four days and long nights of debate, Faure laid in his final plea. His allies had helped all that they could. To ease the way, German President Theodor Heuss had signed the Paris accords, completing German action except for the formality of depositing the instrument of ratification. Secretary of State Dulles had sent a carefully worded message pledging the U.S. to "closest cooperation" with the new Western European Union. Faure played his trump...
...Died. Theodor Plievier, 63, bestselling German author, renowned for his three World War II novels describing the fighting on the Russian front (Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin); of a heart attack; in Avegno, Switzerland. Plievier turned to Communism shortly after World War I, wrote several anti-war novels in the early 19305, fled to Russia to become an official propagandist when the Nazis came to power. Disillusioned with the Soviet Union (although not with theoretical Communism), Plievier took refuge in U.S.-occupied Bavaria...
...city of shadowy relationships and shifting allegiances, no one worried too much about his past. It was known that he was born in Poland, that his father had been an officer of the old Austrian Empire's army and a comrade-in-arms to Austria's President Theodor Korner. A cultivated man, Dr. Sokolowski speaks excellent Russian, German, Polish, French and English, a valuable asset in a city quartered between four languages. For his services to Austria, he got Austrian citizenship in 1945, became chief interpreter for the Vienna city council...
MOSCOW, by Theodor Plievier, was certainly the most memorable book of the year about World War II, a flaming near-documentary about German victory and defeat in Russia...
Adenauer had hand-picked Theodor Blank to organize Germany's new army precisely to avoid the traditional working-class hostility to the army. No heel-clicking, stiff-backed militarist, but an ex-union official who still speaks in the pawky idiom of the Ruhr workman...