Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portuguese, translated by Brazil's Washington Ambassador Joāo Carlos Muniz. After breakfast Kubitschek bade farewell to his host, and raced back to the Brazilian commercial airliner that had brought him from Rio. Stops ahead on his preinauguration tour: Washington, New York, London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, the Vatican, Madrid, Lisbon-all in 17 hectic days...
...Bonn (where there is a treason charge standing against him), Otto John's story of drugged kidnaping and clever fencing with the MVD interrogators was deemed altogether too romantic. The West, having had time to take stock of his defection, had found the loss to Western intelligence less than expected. Strictly concerned with operations inside West Germany, he had had few intelligence secrets to tell the Russians. His propaganda value exhausted, the Communists had given him less and less to do, plainly showing that they also distrusted traitors...
...suggestion of discussions at a ministerial level, as implying recognition of East Germany. West Germans were willing to make lesser arrangements, a process that has been going on for some time. All barge permits, said Neues Deutschland, East Germany's Pravda, would be terminated Dec. 31, and "Bonn authorities will have to file applications for renewal." Was this the beginning of another Berlin blockade? Many West Berliners feared so; and their concern over the barge traffic was increased by the fact that the British too, like the Russians, had quietly withdrawn their supervision of barge registrations more than...
...that East Germany had staked its claim to control the barge traffic, Chancellor Adenauer called his advisers in emergency session in Bonn to consider countermeasures. Shutting canal locks in West Berlin to East German barges, or stopping East German goods at Hamburg, would hurt the Communists, but not enough. A much rougher blow would be halting East Germany's $48 million-a-year trade with West Germany. Communist East Germany in particular needs steel and heavy machinery...
Threat and Counterthreat. But such a blockade would never work if the Belgians, French, or any other Western nation sold the East Germans the steel that West Germany would not. The West found an answer to that. The Western allies and the Bonn Government drew up a plan for applying a NATO-wide embargo on East German trade, should a new Berlin blockade develop. Next day the East Germans announced that the old barge permits would continue to be honored, after all, by the Communist regime...