Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM Russia last week came news of another TIME cover subject. When West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visited Moscow, TIME'S peripatetic Bonn Bureau Chief James Bell went along, stayed close enough to his subject (see cut) to dig up some important facts that had not been previously reported on the Moscow conference (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Some of the doubts focused on the fear that a Russian ambassador in the West German capital, Bonn, might seduce the Germans from their alliance with the West. This fear was hardly worth taking seriously; one of the most conspicuous facts of postwar Europe is the failure of the Communist Party-or any kind of pro-Soviet attitude-to find any acceptance in the free political marketplace of West Germany...
There was no agreement to be friends, nor could there be any trust between Communist Russia, which holds half of Germany captive, and the Bonn Republic, committed tightly to alliance with the West. The agreement merely said, in stiff, impersonal terms, that both sides, for the first time since the mutual treachery of 1939-41, will establish diplomatic relations and work towards "mutual understanding and cooperation ... in the interests of peace...
...communiqué emphasized the existence of two Germanys, and the Soviet line that reunification of the two is principally "a national problem of the German people," not something for the Western powers to meddle in. In return, Adenauer had got an oral promise from Bulganin that "before you reach Bonn, action to release the German prisoners will be set in motion...
...surrender of Bonn's right to speak for all the German people, including inhabitants of "those German regions which presently lie outside the area of its effective control...