Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire strength in Europe (three pentomic infantry divisions and two armored divisions, armed with M48 Patton tanks, atomic cannon. Honest John and Redstone missiles) would be outmatched against the 22 Russian divisions in East Germany (4,000 new T-54 tanks) and the 125,000 to 150.000 Red-impressed German militiamen. NATO's 21 combat-ready divisions, organized for defense, would not likely be committed to road-opening chores...
...international law. Britain boarded U.S. ships before the War of 1812, and the U.S. boarded vessels at various times thereafter: during the Civil War, in Prohibition days. In the South Atlantic a few months before Pearl Harbor, a party from the U.S. cruiser Omaha boarded and interned the German merchant raider Odenwald, which was masquerading under U.S. colors. The U.S. made a tentative stab at visit and search in 1954, when it asked Britain and other allies to permit U.S. Navy ships to seize any arms shipments bound for revolution-torn Guatemala. Britain's cold reply: "There...
Whether or not there was a summit, Khrushchev plainly intended-for last week, at least-to go ahead with his plans to turn control of the access routes into West Berlin over to the East German Communists. If the West would not agree to a Russian-drafted World War II peace treaty with both East and West Germany, Khrushchev would sign a separate treaty with the East Germans-after negotiating terms during his visit to the Leipzig trade fair this week. At that point "the [postwar] agreement on the division of Berlin into two sectors and hence on its occupation...
Beneath the impulsive language, the full outline of the Russian design could be plainly seen, and for Russian purposes it had been adroitly conceived. Moscow has divided its German policy into two categories. One is directed at the statesmen of the U.S., Britain and France, the other to the people of West Germany. For each audience, Khrushchev had an unmistakable message...
...Western Big Three. Russia is not fundamentally interested in "relaxation of tensions," in the Rapacki disengagement plan, a "thinning out" of Soviet and U.S. troops in Central Europe, or any other ingenious schemes for an overall settlement of the German problem. What Khrushchev is determined to do, beyond all else, is t01) end Berlin's status as an outpost of Western power, and 2) oblige the West to accept, openly or implicitly, the permanence of the East German Communist state. To force the West's hand, Khrushchev denies that the Western powers any longer possess World...