Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assurance was welcome to Berliners, and so was Herter. He returned to Geneva refreshed by his enthusiastic reception. The only dismaying thing about the trip was the need for it. As things were going at Geneva, a little reassurance all around was necessary. The West was being firm about defending Berlin "rights" but flexible about discussing Berlin "arrangements"; Herter worried that West Berlin morale might some day be affected by misunderstanding of such fine diplomatic distinctions...
...mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness." And so Gromyko did. In the eighth week of "negotiations" at Geneva, with the mechanical insistence of a recorded time signal, he reiterated demands that the West could not agree to without, in effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless procedural concession, and agreed to discuss Berlin "simultaneously" with...
...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer observed July 20 by laying a wreath at a monument to the victims of the Nazis. In West Berlin, officers of the new Bundeswehr, who had to wear civilian clothes because of the city's quadripartite occupation status, gathered to honor July 20 at the old headquarters of the Wehrmacht on what is now, in memory of the day, called Stauffenbergstrasse. To the Communist East Berlin Neues Deutschland, this was "dirty-dog hypocrisy." Snapped West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt "Over there, they have good reason to fear a 'rebellion of conscience...
...East Germany's top Communist brass is concerned, proletarian equality is for others. For 20 top Communists and their families, a special construction crew is putting finishing touches on a palatial housing development on 186 acres of forest land near Lake Liepnitz, 15 miles north of Berlin...
...inner compound, surrounded by 6-ft.-high concrete walls, will have 20 twelve-room fieldstone villas, a state-run shopping center, power plant, and a house of culture that features guest rooms, a theater and a ballroom, reported West Berlin's B.Z. last week. The shopping center is being stocked with Westphalian ham, Danish chickens, French mushrooms and Crimean champagne, all at PX prices. Other amenities: a safe in each villa for classified documents, a radiation-proof bomb shelter. Outside the inner compound are apartment quarters for 150 servants, and barracks for 160 armed guards, said B.Z. The East...