Word: east-west
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pavel Lukianov, counselor at the Russian embassy in Wasington, told his audience, "What I know is what you know." He was speaking to the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council, and his announced topic was "The 'Thaw' in East-West Relations...
...book, though, lies the schizophrenia of a Germany divided-affluent and self-satisfied to the west of the Iron Curtain, lean and paranoid to the east. Earlier conquerors-the Romans, the armies of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years' War, the Napoleonic French-dropped their Iron Curtains between north and south. Over the centuries there developed a dour, methodical, Protestant North, and an affable, beer-drinking, Catholic South. The East-West split, Leonhardt argues, has cut this historical Germany into quarters and generated an "Athens v. Sparta" complex that most Germans believe can only be cured by reunification...
Considering the danger of a turn for the worse in East-West relations, such long-term credits are a definite gamble. Yet Western businessmen are eager to take the risk to get a firm toe hold in the potentially enormous market in Russia and its European satellites. So far, one of the main attractions has been Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year program to spend $42 billion developing Russia's lagging chemical industry. Even the West German government is under considerable pressure from businessmen to yield to such commercial temptations. Says Berthold Beitz, Krupp's general manager...
...only turnabout made fair plays, the coming Broadway season would be a sizable cut above its predecessors. Reversing the East-West brain drain in a migration unprecedented since movies broke the sound barrier, Hollywood writers and composers have turned out so many plays and musicals this year that they threaten to outnumber old Broadway hands in the coming 1964-65 playbills...
Implying opposition to Goldwater in Yugoslavia, Jovanovic described the widespread fear in his country that the trend toward improved East-West relations might be disrupted