Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been treated like "lackeys." The damage was not that easily ended: Adenauer had proved his power but at the expense of his prestige. Overnight, throughout West Germany, Adenauer's popularity fell. Many accused him of downgrading both the presidency and the chancellorship by his autocratic actions. "Disgraceful," cried Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt. Even his chosen heir. Finance Minister Etzel, informed that Adenauer was now thinking of asking him to run for President, irately snapped: "Next thing you know, Adenauer is going to nominate me for Pope...
...four weeks of niggling negotiations and propaganda barrages, Geneva had finally focused down to one essential issue: the future status of Berlin. Last week, to the surprise of practically nobody, Western ministers unveiled to Gromyko the concessions that they were prepared to make over Berlin. The chief proposals, apart from a demand that Russia guarantee Western access to the city...
...offer not to increase the 11,000-man garrison that the U.S., Britain and France now maintain in Berlin...
Coming two days before the deadline originally set by Nikita Khrushchev for the West to quit West Berlin, Springer's ceremony was particularly symbolic. "The fact that we lay this cornerstone today right at the edge of the sector boundary," said he, "is an expression of our fast faith in the historical unity of Germany...
Though his papers-particularly Die Welt-have often tempered their pro-Western stands by urging a more conciliatory approach to Russia, Springer's empire has gradually swung toward a firm, unified support of the West's stand on Berlin during the past six months. Says Publisher Springer: "I believe in Germany, a Germany with Berlin as its capital. But not only do I believe in Germany -I want this Germany. And that's why I'm building now in Berlin...