Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown at Geneva and in the fact that they had made no substantial concessions to Moscow. This claim, as far as it went, was true: the Western powers had not compromised their legal or physical position in West Berlin, and though they had been shouldered dangerously close to de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, they had clung to their refusal to grant formal diplomatic recognition to the East Germans. But none of this altered the fact that as the weeks went by, the Western performance at Geneva had been one of foot-shuffling irresolution...
...Westerners then agreed to adopt a round table, but with the two German groups sitting apart, at separate tables. How close? Gromyko took six pencils and laid them side by side. "Just this far," he said stolidly. "I will initial it." And so, as the Communist press proclaimed "de facto recognition of East Germany," the conference began...
...claim that the East Germans had been made full participants-implying diplomatic recognition by the West. On both sides of the Iron Curtain some news outlets accepted the line. Cried Radio Warsaw: "Victory for the U.S.S.R." Cabled Correspondent Mamoru Kikuchi to the Japan Times: "East Germany has won de facto recognition." Such was the effect of the Communist pitch that at one point U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter felt obliged to spell out the West's attitude toward the East German regime during a conference session, persuaded Britain and France to do the same...
...fired him as mayor of Cologne in 1945 for "insufficient display of energy." And when Harold Macmillan failed to consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position without even asking how Bonn felt about...
Macmillan is speaking simple truth when he angrily denies he is an appeaser, and insists that he has no intention of surrendering vital Western positions to Russia. But he is readier than others to meet Khrushchev's demand for a de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, provided that West Berlin's freedom is preserved. And the fact remains that Britain, more than any other Western power, is convinced that its hopes for the future rest on early termination of the cold...