Word: east-west
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...sense the soviet countries cannot affect devaluation because the volume of East-West trade is now low for obvious political reasons. "If England wanted to sell to Russia, devaluation would prove a big help; but as long as trade is so small it does not matter...
There was only one thing new on the Russian merry-go-round as it wheeled around to the same old tune: it had one rider less than before. The old East-West split of 53-to-6 had now become 54-10-5. The vagrant vote came from the grinning, youthful-looking Yugoslav delegates who sat in the row behind Vishinsky, seeming to rejoice in their freshly asserted break from Mother Russia...
Sure Ground. It was a lull in the political East-West conflict which had focused so much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...Germany's East-West split has prevented such an "all-German" body; last January the three western zonal boards formed the German Student Association, with headquarters now in Cologne...
...What then is Mr. Stalin's price, Mr. Ambassador ... for what you people call East-West coexistence...