Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the growing uneasiness which grips the world, an almost unnoticed change is taking place in Finland this year. Without riches of the mid-east or the explosiveness of Berlin, the nation whose defense against Russia electrified the world twenty years ago is slowly slipping into the Russian Orbit...
Kekkonnen is in a precarious position. His people like the Americans and tend to call the Russians "smelly barbarians," but, as he puts it, "Relations with the West depend on how she handles relations with the East." The West, he says, tends to regard loans from Rusisa as treason, but without them Finland will not survive. When Finnish ties with the West grow stronger, as they did last fall, Russia exerts economic pressure...
...Russians are pulling the wool over everybody's eyes," stated Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government and research associate in the Russian Research Center. He called the Soviets' use of troops "a facade to hide their real motive of trying to stop the exit of refugees from East Germany." Brzezinski claimed, "The Russians have no intent of war," but instead are forcing recognition of their satellites...
...part, Khrushchev has received first-hand the information that his word is given little value abroad, and that his granting sovereignty to East Germany deludes no one as to her continued dependence on Russia. More important, Macmillan made it clear to him that the allies were determined and united on the subject of Berlin. For the first time, Khrushchev has been personally told by a Western leader that continuance of a present policy may lead to world conflict...
...important result of this exchange of information is that Khrushchev has indirectly retreated from his ultimatum to hand over the corridors to Berlin to the East German government on May 27. He has done this by backing down and accepting Western demands for a conference of Foreign Ministers, which would presumably negotiate plans for Berlin, Central Europe and a summit meeting. Thus, Macmillan's most important achievement is that by convincing Khrushchev that solutions may be reached by negotiation rather than by ultimatums and force, he has made the international situation less explosive...