Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among other proposals of a somewhat more nineteenth century label, Dr. Habsburg urged the West to give economic aid only to those countries accepting western ideology and to counter Russia's Berlin threats with a similar threat to close off the Soviet Union's access to the high seas...
...Russian scheme to internationalize Berlin, in exchange for as yet undefined guarantees of Western access, he can relay a remark of President Kennedy's that should be appreciated by Khrushchev, famous for his similes. Said Kennedy to Gromyko: "You have offered to trade us an apple for an orchard. We do not do that in this country...
...depends on detail. Items: Would Western access be guaranteed by the Russians themselves, or only by the East German puppets? Item: Would Berlin's safety be additionally guaranteed through the presence of U.N. agencies there? Item: Would the West manage to retain, even theoretically, the goal of ultimate German unification...
Amid these and countless other problems, and their often hair-splitting definitions, the basic question for the U.S. concerns the meaning of a word more important than "access" or "guarantee." The word is realism. As Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk well know, realism in the U.S. dictionary must not come to mean merely acceptance of the other fellow's reality...
There lives today near Paris an ascetic, unobtrusive Frenchman who may ultimately succeed where others, from Charlemagne to Napoleon, ultimately failed. He commands no armies or popular following, but his work is worth uncounted divisions to the West. He has neither title nor portfolio, but he has privileged access to every chancellery of Western Europe. He has no formal higher education, but the world's most brilliant economists regard him as their peer. He has never joined a political party, but parliamentarians across Europe flock to his summons. His name is Jean Monnet, and he is the practical apostle...