Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, as London's Economist soberly noted last week, "by the time he got it home, Mr. Macmillan's diplomatic luggage was pretty light." In the face of French, German and U.S. skepticism, Macmillan had dropped one pet concept after another. In the beginning the British press, taking its cue from the Macmillan-Khrushchev communiqué which mentioned a possible limitation of weapons "in an agreed area of Europe," had talked eagerly of steps toward "disengagement" of Western and Soviet forces in Central Europe. Macmillan's aides diluted this to a "thinning out" of the military...
...would remain between the River Meuse and the ocean in which to deploy and use the means of the West." In Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was highly incensed by reports that Britain's idea of an armed freeze was one that would ban nuclear weapons for the West German army. "These British!" snorted Adenauer. "They should learn that they cannot lead the Continent any longer...
...honest. No one really wants German reunification...
...Nikita Khrushchev to a West German Socialist delegation...
...East Germany, in addition to being Russia's No. 1 trading partner, serves as a substantial tool of Communist penetration in non-Communist parts of the world, where German technical performance is respected. Beyond the 77% of East German trade that goes to Russia and European satellites, 11% now goes to the Middle East, most of the rest to the Far East. East Germany is now Europe's fifth biggest industrial nation...