Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin by force would bring nuclear war (see FOREIGN NEWS). In his press conference President Eisenhower promised: "We stand firm on the rights and the responsibilities that we have undertaken" on behalf of non-Communist Germany. And in a Washington speech to the National Press Club, West German Ambassador Wilhelm G. Grewe expressed his government's deep-seated doubt that the German crisis can somehow be solved by "new approaches" in diplomatic maneuver...
...sobering note, however, came from West Germany's Ambassador to Washington, Wilhelm Grewe. He said he believed the Soviet Union might once again try to impose a total blockade of the West's sector of Berlin. Grewe told the National Press Club the West faces a dangerous situation even though Russia probably does not intend to start a major war over Berlin...
...London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans had fought each other in two world wars, and in them more than a million Britons had died...
...whisk. After brooding over this outrage for three years, France finally saw it as an opportunity, sent General Louis de Bourmont and 37,000 men sailing south from Toulon. Within three weeks of their landing, De Bourmont's troops paraded in triumph through Algiers to the strains of Wilhelm Tell...
...York Yankees-among ball clubs the royalty and far-out winners of the 1958 American League pennant-faced up scornfully one afternoon last week to aging (35) Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher for the seventh-place Baltimore Orioles and long since cast off by the Giants, -Cardinals and Indians. Wilhelm, who had won only two games all season, thereupon pitched to just 28 batters and shut out the Yanks in a 1-o no-hitter...