Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSCOW, Nov. 12--The Soviet Union thrust the dormant Berlin issue to the fore again today by charging that the West German government plans to build a new radio station in West Berlin for propaganda...
...School before joining the Foreign Service after World War I. As he rose through the corps, putting out diplomatic fires from North Africa to Berlin, from Trieste to Panmunjom, Suez, Tunis and Lebanon (TIME cover, Aug. 25, 1958), 3,400 Foreign Service pros came to look upon him as "Mr. Foreign Service." His trademark was an amiable smile overlaying a dependable core of toughness. Said he to a trouble-minded Lebanese rebel leader at the height of the Lebanon crisis in August 1958: "You know, we have the power to destroy your positions in a matter of seconds. We haven...
...this the Western powers are in disarray. At one side stands the U.S., still inclined to feel that the division of Germany into two nations is, in the long run, both untenable and dangerous, but pledged to seek new ways of solving the "abnormal" situation of isolated West Berlin. At the other extreme stands De Gaulle, who sees no reason to want any change in the German situation, opposes reunification of East and West Germany on the ground that it might mean the end of West Germany's integration into the Western European community...
...represented, with extreme nervousness. Fortnight ago he cryptically suggested that Germany might yet have to make more sacrifices in order to complete "the liquidation of the effects of World War II." What Adenauer fears is that the West may agree to some erosion of its position in West Berlin and may, at least by implication, accept Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe as legitimate. The simple French position is that to renegotiate on Berlin is to call into question the West's existing right to be there...
...biweekly Stimme der Gemeinde (Voice of the Congregation). Bishop Lilje recoiled from his surprise package. "I cannot share Dibelius' views,'' he said. "One can't drive down the street any way one wants to." The board of managers of Dibelius' own Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg also stepped lightly out of the target area. "We cannot share [Dibelius'] interpretation," they advised member pastors. "The obedience required of us by Holy Writ in respect to governmental authority applies also to the governments presently existing today...