Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...must be done at once to "relieve tensions" in General Europe; 2) the conviction that the prime source of these tensions lies in the present divided condition of Germany. Victims of Rapacki fever assume that there is little hope either for the U.S. to "roll back" Soviet forces from Eastern Europe or for the Russians to drive U.S. forces out of Western Europe. So they proclaim the need of an in-between solution-some kind of disengagement of Soviet and U.S. power. Among the most discussed disengagement proposals...
...KENNAN PLAN. With sweeping simplicity, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia George Kennan a year ago suggested that in return for complete withdrawal of Soviet forces from Eastern Europe, all U.S. troops should leave Continental Europe. Like Gaitskell, Kennan is willing to accept German neutrality as the price of German reunification...
Paul Brown, Miami '30, has the Cleveland Browns out ahead in the battle for the N.F.L.'s Eastern Division championship, may find himself matching Miami-molded brains with Ewbank at year's end in pro football's world series...
...superficial" Far Eastern policy, the U.S. has made the mistake of "unleashing Chiang Kai-shek," Bowles contended. Bowles also has "never felt that the Baghdad Pact made sense," and he charged that the American policy in the Middle East is irrationally based on four men "of whom not one could take out an insurance policy...