Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WEST GERMANY: Both German delegations were sitting in a strictly advisory capacity, and Bonn's Foreign Minister von Brentano would not even flatter the East Germans by his presence...
EAST GERMANY: The East German regime had at last been recognized by the imperialist West, with full participating rights in the conference...
...mayor of Berlin, Willy Brandt has duties no ordinary mayor has-protocol responsibilities as the head of a quasi-autonomous state, and the responsibility for liaison with Allied commanders in the city. He also has a unique set of problems. According to East German officials, some 48 Western "terror," espionage and propaganda organizations operate out of West Berlin. Inevitably, their endless, shadowy war with the 60,000 Communist agents operating out of East Germany creates clamorous incidents in West Berlin, exposes the city to endless complaints from Moscow. Willy, like most Berliners, has come to regard some of the underground...
Maybe one of the reasons the place is so unattractive is the way they study the stranger. On the second day, in the car, one of my cop chums turned to me and said: "You're German, aren't you?" "No," I said. "I'm Irish-English." "Well, what about your middle name?" he said. "You mean 'Goetz?' " I asked. "Yes." So I said I had just a little German in me, and remembered that the only place my middle name appeared was on my passport (I had not used it on my tourist card...
...Sided Story. To the newsman attempting to follow the briefings over the earphone sets provided by the Swiss in the press building, the foreign ministers' conference often seemed bewilderingly contradictory. On a typical night, after the foreign ministers had agreed to seat the East and West German delegations at separate tables (see FOREIGN NEWS), a correspondent switching from briefing to briefing would have heard...