Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hungarian foreign minister, Gyula Horn, suggested on Hungarian television that tens of thousands of other East Germans now vacationing in Hungary also may choose to leave for the West along with those in the refugee camps...
...State Department's in-house think tank, the policy-planning staff. His article is being studied for possible insights into the cerebral underpinnings of the Bush Administration. Forty-three years ago, the founding director of the policy-planning staff, George Kennan, wrote an article in another erudite quarterly, Foreign Affairs, on the need for the West to pursue a policy of "containment" against Soviet Communism. President Bush has spoken of moving "beyond containment." Fukuyama has gone his boss one better, proclaiming that we may be witnessing "not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular...
...months have passed since the State Department accused Bloch of contacts with a Soviet agent, setting off a circus of public surveillance but no formal charges. Yet as Bloch sipped a vodka tonic and spoke angrily of the "F Bureau of Incompetents," he seemed little changed from the career foreign-service officer I have known for more than 28 years. "I guess the bottom line is they don't have a case yet," he said...
Despite all the German troop movements, despite sharp words between the two regimes, the supposedly crafty and suspicious Stalin foresaw nothing. The very night before the attack, Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov called in the German ambassador, Count Friedrich von der Schulenberg, and said the Soviets were "unable to understand the reasons for Germany's dissatisfaction." Schulenberg said he would try to find out. A few hours later, at dawn, he returned to the Kremlin with a message from Berlin. It accused the Soviets of violating the Nazi-Soviet pact, massing their troops and planning a surprise attack on Germany...
...that let him keep his gains? He had predicted such a possibility in the fall: "The recognition that neither force is capable of annihilating the other will lead to a compromise peace." Stalin actually began sending out peace feelers as early as October 1941, and, according to Liddell Hart, Foreign Ministers Molotov and Ribbentrop finally met secretly in 1943 to seek a settlement. But the Germans wanted a new boundary on the Dnieper River, which would have given them more than 130,000 sq. mi. of Mother Russia, while the Soviets, having withstood the Nazis' deepest penetration and inflicted some...