Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany over 3,000,000 have gone from East to West...
Khrushchev has superlative cause for worrying about the continued existence of West Berlin: it stands as a showcase outpost of freedom-a glowing symbol, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain, of successful allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying...
...talk turned to East-West trade, with Khrushchev blandly insisting that the Soviet Union does not use trade as a political weapon. A few nights before, when a second-string Russian bureaucrat denied that the Russians attach strings to their trade offers, Humphrey retorted: Why, I've just come from a country [Finland] where [trade] not only has strings; it's a political noose." Humphrey asked Khrushchev for specific facts began pressing his own statistics on Khrushchev, who shrugged: "I am not expert and there are details I am not familiar with. He promised to bring in Trade...
Indeed the evidence seems to suggest a "law" of popular gravitation to democratic freedom. Within the past five years there have been violent outbreaks in East Berlin, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Communist China. Today the Soviet rulers threaten West Berlin. Why? It is simple. It is because they have been put on the defensive by the inspiring demonstration there of what free men can do. Internally, Red China is feverishly imposing a communization program designed quickly to transform the Chinese nation into a great military and industrial power. The program involves human slavery, and cruelty on a scale unprecedented...
...want to warn you," he added, "that any discussion of a peace treaty means discussing the Eastern frontier question," i.e., risking endorsement of the present Oder-Neisse border with Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...