Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inching ahead with almost leisurely menace, Nikita Khrushchev built up pressure on the Allied position in West Berlin. But his real aim, it became clearer, was to force Western recognition of his servile East German satellite regime...
...would defend West Berlin as if it were U.S. soil, Pravda jeered that "the creation of a war psychosis" could not keep the peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live, and we have strong nerves...
...West Germany's oak-hearted Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, was again being subjected to the crudest of taunts and the hardest of tests. He was under pressure from the so-called "flexibles" of his own party, who have been criticizing his refusal to permit any negotiation with the East German puppet regime. They say that Germany can never be reunified without talks. Adenauer sees clearly that such talks will not end in reunification, but in recognition of the "two Germanys." Grudgingly, the old man dispatched a reply to Moscow's latest note, conceding for the first time that...
Some Adenauer supporters in Bonn urged the Western powers to drive tanks and armed convoys across the no miles to West Berlin rather than recognize any East German right of control. Even in the 1948 Berlin blockade days, when all Germany was occupied territory of the conquerors, the U.S. never tried that. Actually, since 1955, West German trucks, barges and boxcars have supplied half a million tons a month to West Berlin, plying back and forth under East German controls. Last week, though still not officially recognizing each other, East and West Germany signed three supplemental semiofficial trade agreements, insuring...
...ground, the British began to make noises as if it did not matter much what compromises were made so long as the West stayed in West Berlin. The London Economist thought it odd that the West should be willing to talk about Germany with Russian Communists but not with German...