Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamentally interested in "relaxation of tensions," in the Rapacki disengagement plan, a "thinning out" of Soviet and U.S. troops in Central Europe, or any other ingenious schemes for an overall settlement of the German problem. What Khrushchev is determined to do, beyond all else, is t01) end Berlin's status as an outpost of Western power, and 2) oblige the West to accept, openly or implicitly, the permanence of the East German Communist state. To force the West's hand, Khrushchev denies that the Western powers any longer possess World War II "conquerors' rights" in Germany -which...
...distrust of the U.S. and their more experimental approach to the cold war, have more appeal than the Tories. Khrushchev's main interest in the Macmillan visit, obvious except to Whitehall, lay in his hope that it would uncover a split between the U.S. and British governments over Berlin. When he found Macmillan consistently taking the line that the West was unshakably united in the determination to hold its position in Berlin, Khrushchev complained to his companions that Macmillan was "just sitting and saying nothing while we make proposals...
Almost as a side thought, Nikita Khrushchev interrupted his word war for Berlin to threaten the Shah of Iran for "insulting" the Soviet Union. The effect was no side issue in Teheran. In a misconceived maneuver during negotiations for Iran's new bilateral agreement with the U.S., the Shah had invited his Soviet neighbors to make him a counteroffer-and then sent them away emptyhanded. "Iran treated us as if we were Luxembourg," huffed Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Pegov. Khrushchev centered all his abuse on the Shah and the Shah alone. "He fears not us but his own people," roared...
...scheduled tour would have taken ten to twelve weeks, would have included a two-week stand in Moscow, plus such stops as Milan, Athens, Berlin, Brussels and Paris, and probably Cairo, Baalbek, Santander and Warsaw. It was not only the longest European tour ever scheduled for a U.S. orchestra, but also would have been the Chicago Symphony's first overseas tour in its 68-year history. The only trouble with it, argued 7O-year-old Conductor Reiner, was that it would leave the orchestra "miserably worn out" for its regular Chicago season. The explanation did not satisfy the musicians...
...BERLIN, March 8--Premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged tonight to work for an end to the cold war if the Western powers agree to withdraw their troops from West Berlin...