Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly this meant trying to revive the corpse of the Potsdam agreement. U.S. Secretary of State Acheson called it "turning the clock back." French Foreign Minister Schuman said it would mean "returning to the point where our paths diverged . . . whereas what we are trying to do is find a point where our paths can converge again." Vishinsky retorted: "Until the peace treaty, Allied control of Germany must be as inevitable as the sun. You cannot prevent the sun from rising." Countered Schuman: "No, but you cannot return to the dawn once the sun has risen...
...Minimum. The Western delegates had no intention of losing what had been gained in Germany. German unity, they insisted, must come within the democratic framework of the Bonn constitution (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Measures to insure this faithfulness were conspicuous. Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky reported that 107,133 party members had been expelled so far this year. That left 2,311,066 members, of whom 22% were "candidate members." It had been a difficult year, Said Slansky: "Foreign and hostile elements sent by the orders of foreign spy groups" had penetrated into the party itself...
...made as if to shake the referee's hand, then socked him. Other Turks tried to beat up Italian players. Still mad, they wrecked their Athens hotel before leaving for Turkey, where the whole Turkish nation got into the fight. The Turkish ambassador called on the Greek foreign minister to protest. There were street demonstrations in Istanbul demanding the return of Cyprus, the Dodecanese and Dedeagach...
Five minutes before the opening gavel at the Foreign Ministers' conference in Paris, Konrad Adenauer, president of Germany's constitutional assembly, rose up in Bonn's Pedagogical Institute and intoned: "Today the new Germany arises." One by one the delegates of eleven Western German states stepped up and signed Western Germany's new democratic constitution (TIME, May 16). Even the Bavarians, who had hoped for more autonomy, less federal control, relented and grudgingly joined the Western German fold...