Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Godesberg tea party has its counterpart all over West Germany. Loudest advocate of a deal with the Russians is burly, demagogic August Hausleiter, a leading Bavarian Christian Democrat, who has just founded Germany's newest political movement, the nationalist "German Union." Hausleiter and his friends call for a "neutralization" of Germany between East and West, evacuation of all occupation armies and a 50-year trade pact with Soviet Russia. No taint of Communist sympathy motivates Hausleiter & friends; they are German nationalists who believe that they can make Germany strong by making a deal with Russia. They put the smile...
What can we of the West do to check the danger? We must finally make up our minds what kind of face we want to see on tomorrow's Germany. We must decide whether our distrust of Germany is so great that we want her to be simply our colony, or whether we want to try to build a free and stable country. It is impossible to do both. If we want the former, we should not talk of democracy, we should not encourage political parties, we should see that the Germans won't produce more and live...
Kurt Schumacher's deputy at Bonn, burly Carlo Schmid, probably the ablest political leader in West Germany, told me: "Whether any of us likes it or not, one thing is true in Europe today-its future depends on the workers of Germany. Russia cannot win them yet-but the West can lose them ... If they should ever desert the West and slide into Bolshevism, then you need no longer worry about what France's workers will do. Then you can have all the Atlantic pacts you can write. Stalin will need no Molotov or Vishinsky, no Cominform...
This estimate smells of blackmail-but it also bears the bitter flavor of unpleasant truth. The West has a little time to decide whether Schmid's estimate is correct. But it does not have very long...
Nineteen years ago, U.S. experts stopped the black fly's first severe invasion of the hemisphere, in Cuba. At that time they imported a parasitic insect from Malaya that destroyed the pest. But for Mexico, where the fly turned up in 1935 in west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...