Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West German "military circles" who are "playing with fire." Playing on fears that are still lively in Poland and Czechoslovakia, Khrushchev charged that "with the approval of NATO, the ruling circles of West Germany use every means to rouse military ambitions to swallow up" former German lands to the East. To stir up latent Western antagonisms toward Germany, Khrushchev asserted: "Economically, West Germany is flying at .the throat of its West European allies." 'TO frighten Wrest Germans, he warned that their "geographical position" and Soviet "modern military techniques" ensure that "West Germany's drive to the East would...
...apparent strategy: using Berlin as his lever, to conclude a Big Four peace treaty over Germany that would leave to the "mutual consent" of the Germans their future status. Not reunification but "confederation" would be his offer, and, in return for normalizing conditions between the two Germanys, Communist East Germany would achieve some form of legitimacy...
...such a deal, said the oily East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht last week, if the U.S., Britain and France had legitimate interests in West Berlin, "we would not be petty...
Khrushchev knew that many West Germans-and not just the opposition Socialists-consider Adenauer's stand too rigid. Adenauer's government recently felt called upon to deny formally that any of its ministers had ever been willing to negotiate with the East Germans. To this, the East Germans coyly asked: What happened June 11, 1955 and Oct. 20, 1956? Adenauer's government had to admit last week that on those dates Adenauer's Finance Minister (now Justice Minister) Fritz Schaffer had indeed crossed over into East Berlin to talk with an East German minister...
...week's end the Russian air control officer was still showing up every day to help approve Western flights to Berlin. One three-truck U.S. convoy was stopped for eight hours at the West Berlin gateway-but by Soviet, not East German guards; and hundreds of other trucks passed through without difficulty. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told graduates of Moscow's Military Academies that the Soviet Union had not meant to imply the use of force at Berlin, but that his government would soon offer the U.S., Britain and France "definite, concrete proposals regarding the status of Berlin...