Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germans. The one thing all Germans claim to want is reunification of Germany. Nobody can give it to them but Russia, and it won't. But Moscow would consent to a loose confederation between East and West Germany. The asking price: West German withdrawal from NATO, renunciation of nuclear weapons (which, the Russians indicated to the British, they regard as more dangerous in German hands than in any others). Khrushchev conceded that Adenauer would prefer NATO to a German confederation. But by so doing, said Atheist Khrushchev piously, Catholic Adenauer is rejecting "both the Christian and atheist" road...
This was not the first time that a Western state visitor to Moscow had been deliberately humiliated. Konrad Adenauer had been confronted with a cold blackmailer's offer-10,000 German P.W.s would be returned only if Bonn formally recognized Moscow. And on the very evening in 1956 when France's Premier Guy Mollet signed a communique hailing Franco-Soviet friendship, Khrushchev, at a Kremlin reception, toasted Algerian independence. But never before had the Russians exposed an eminent Western statesman to quite such open boorishness. With calculated contempt, Khrushchev chose to confide to his campaign audience several pertinent...
Title Defense. Thus did Chancellor Adenauer again assert the extraordinary control he has maintained over German political life for the past decade. Erhard, 62, pink-jowled, cigar-smoking, fast-talking "engineer of the West German economic miracle," became Vice Chancellor only 16 months ago. He had given Adenauer his winning prosperity issue and his most effective stump-speaking support and was widely regarded as the Chancellor's likely successor. But the old man, still tolerating no rivals at 83, moved suddenly and swiftly to shove his most powerful minister up to the largely honorific office that President Theodor Heuss...
Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
...German-speaking South Tyroleans. who once had a10-to-1 majority in the area, accuse the Italians of flooding the region with Sicilian and Neapolitan "immigrants" in an attempt to create an Italian majority...