Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference as we see it lies in separating out those questions that weigh most heavily on the relations between states . . . The Soviet government believes that the question of the conclusion of a [World War II] peace treaty with the two German states should be taken up first and the Berlin question be settled on this basis by transforming West Berlin into a free city...
...done, which indeed complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...
...Soviet proposals are based on the assertion that German reunification is not a present-day problem, and can therefore be left until later. Nor is it a problem within the jurisdiction of the Big Four . . . The draftsmen of the Potsdam Treaties-U.S., Soviet Union and United Kingdom-would have been extremely surprised if they had been told that things would work out this way. Did they not point out very clearly that the peace treaty must be concluded with an all-German government? In fact, how could they possibly have imagined any other solution...
...Satyukov stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...
...hopes the Geneva negotiators will justify the first summit meeting by agreeing on some first step in the direction of German unification...