Word: diplomat
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...tears when watching films of the concentration camps. Some U.S. veterans' groups were upset that Reagan would visit any cemetery where Hitler's elite troops were buried. "I never thought I'd see the day when Ronald Reagan could get the American Legion angry at him," noted one U.S. diplomat, "but, by God, we've done...
...German peace feeler was a desperate maneuver by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, the police and the concentration camps, who had escaped from Berlin to the north German port of Lübeck. There he told a diplomat from neutral Sweden that Germany was willing to surrender to the Americans and British. At worst, Himmler thought, this would enable Germany to throw all its troops against the Soviets; at best, the Western Allies would join the German defense. Himmler seems even to have cherished the illusion that the Allies would support him, the lord of the Holocaust...
Truman's reaction to Himmler's offer was acerbic. "Has he anything to surrender?" the new President asked Churchill on the transatlantic telephone. The two quickly agreed to tell the Swedish diplomat (and to reassure " the ever suspicious Stalin) that Germany must surrender unconditionally to all the Allies. No more was heard from Himmler. Inside the Berlin bunker, Hitler denounced him as a traitor. He dismissed Himmler from his government positions and expelled him from the Nazi Party...
...build a new economic foundation. From the East came the threat represented by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet despot whose Red Army divided the Continent in half, and who spurred movement toward greater unity in the West through his cold war policies. Says Andre de Staercke, a former Belgian diplomat: "We should build a statue to Stalin in every public square in Europe, because he showed us the danger [of disunity...
...ways to bring about talks between Viet Nam and the Kampuchean insurgents. A plan calling for negotiations with a Vietnamese delegation that might include representatives of the Heng Samrin regime won the backing of resistance fighters, ASEAN nations and the U.S. But Viet Nam rejected the idea. One Vietnamese diplomat in Malaysia told TIME, "The proposal is a backward step. It does not help peace talks...