Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's policy in the face of these gambits was slowly crystallizing. The West would never agree to an effective Russian veto in Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...
Anxiety Is Unbecoming. The West had decided it must stand resolutely at Paris, give in to none of Russia's baited proposals. That would leave Russia an excellent chance to make the West look like the enemy of German unity. But the Russians had peddled the same propaganda line before, without notable success...
Some Western observers feared that the promise of "One Reich" would lure West German politicians away from the Western camp. But State's Robert Murphy, for one, did not share this fear. Just back from Germany, where he had helped smooth the way for adoption of the Bonn constitution, he said: "I don't think we are going to have a bit of trouble with the Western Germans. They are going to go right ahead...
Four years to the day after the Third Reich surrendered the bloody remnants of its arrogance and power to the Allies, German delegates at Bonn last week adopted a democratic constitution for the 46 million people of Western Germany...
...constitution is to be approved this week by the military governors of the three Western zones. After that the legislatures of the eleven West German states will have to ratify it, the German people hold elections to choose a parliament. Target date for the "Federal Republic of Germany" to set up shop: July...