Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friedrich based his plan on the assumption that Russia is not using the Berlin issue as an excuse to start a war. Rather, he feels the Soviet's withdrawl from Berlin is an attempt to force the West into a de facto recognition of East Germany...
This freedom has opened up the possibility of an M.A. in the fourth year. The GSAS, however, not wanting admission to the Grad School and an early M.A. to become ipso facto prerogatives of students with Sophomore Standing, has imposed restrictions. A student remaining in the College for an extra year must apply for M.A. candidacy on the same basis as a normal applicant. If accepted, he can then, upon completion of the required courses, receive both his B.A. and his M.A. at the end of his fourth year. Wilcox calls this "the hottest thing in the A.P. program...
...East and West Germany, Khrushchev would sign a separate treaty with the East Germans-after negotiating terms during his visit to the Leipzig trade fair this week. At that point "the [postwar] agreement on the division of Berlin into two sectors and hence on its occupation status will ipso facto fall away...
Whatever little guidance and direction there is in American policy has undeniably come from Secretary Dulles. Little has emerged from the planning board of the department nor has there been any but post facto consultation with the Senate through the Committee on Foreign Relations, long moribund under Senator Green...
Communists, and even odder that the West should insist on the Russian right to stay in Berlin. But in pressing for the kind of recognition-whether de facto or formal-that would only cement the division of Germany, the Russians are obviously seeking the status quo that Khrushchev told Walter Lippmann is the goal of Soviet diplomacy...