Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boundary question arose from Stalin's insistence on annexing part of Eastern Poland. Before Yalta, it was understood that the Poles would be compensated by giving them German territory in the West. U.S. policy, as defined by the State Department in preparation for Yalta, was to hold down the size of Stalin's grab, thus minimizing the cruel displacement of population on both of Poland's borders...
...free and unfettered would the future Polish elections be? The principle involved in this was the political key to the future of Eastern Europe. But it was not argued on principle or bargained from strength. Roosevelt thought of the 6,000,000 American-Polish voters. "The matter is not only one of principle," he said, "but of practical politics ... I want this election ... to be ... like Caesar's wife. I did not know her, but they said she was pure...
...Polish lesson was not lost on the Hungarians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Rumanians and Czechs. If the Poles, Eastern Europe's stoutest fighters for freedom, could not count on the West, what hope for the others? Inexorably, the Communist grip upon all of them tightened...
...Germany, but at the same time to merge the split parts into greater military and economic systems. I have a dark feeling that the issues discussed at Yalta are being materialized by merging West Germany into the military system of the West. The merger of Middle Germany* into an Eastern system of alliances will [make] the reunification of Germany impossible...
...Trib. When Catledge refused. Maxwell went after the text himself. He told his Washington bureau to stir up Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen. who, in turn, asked Republican Minority Leader William Knowland to protest about the State Department's "plan to 'leak' the text to one favored Eastern newspaper...