Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probable D-day as Oct. 27. Both Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had flexed their new rocket muscles in promising to retaliate against Turkey (see FOREIGN NEWS). The U.S. fear was not so much that Russia would risk all-out war by Middle Eastern aggression, as such, but rather that it would dangerously spread its influence in the Arab world by appearing as the noisy champion of Arab Syria. The Eisenhower-Macmillan talks would dwell less on the intramural problems of the Middle East than on methods of keeping the Russian influence...
...clear gainer was Nikita Khrushchev, who had extracted Yugoslav recognition of East Germany in return for Tito's readmission to honorary membership in "the camp of socialism." By this maneuver Khrushchev had forestalled Konrad Adenauer's tentative scheme to try some Bismarckian diplomacy in Eastern Europe. Adenauer's first projected step was the recognition of Poland, in the hope of creating useful fragmentation among the Soviet satellites. Having broken with Tito over the issue of East German recognition, West Germany could scarcely justify entering into diplomatic relations with the Poles, who have recognized East Germany ever since...
...country in the world has lowered trade barriers as boldly and sharply. The cuts have also helped to keep prices down at home. German workers, long paid less than other Western Europeans because of the postwar needs of rebuilding and the huge influx of unorganized refugee workers from Eastern Europe, have been reaping the rewards of trusting in Erhard's insistence that production must come before benefits...
...military mechanism. The West, they declared, opened the second front only after the heroism of the Russian people, under the genius of Stalin and the leadership of the Communist party, had Germany virtually conquered. And the western front was successful then only because the Germans had to reinforce their eastern lines so heavily...
...Administration of the Ph.D. Degree in History and Far Eastern Languages...