Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wouldn't it have been appropriate and also interesting to tell the readers of TIME that a German, Philipp Reis (1834-1874), invented the telephone...
...week was this: in Washington, London, Bonn and Paris, diplomats concerned were now convinced that a Foreign Ministers' conference will be held, probably in Geneva, and that it will begin, if Russia agrees, on May 11. It might last several months, and take up the whole German question ("Agenda isn't important," said one top Briton. "Once people get together, they usually discuss anything they want to"). It would probably fail...
Getting in the victims as well as the victors to write the German peace had a plausible sound, but it was also part of the Russian tactics to contest the West's legal right to be in Berlin, as conquerors, until a peace treaty is concluded. Khrushchev was also aiming to pack the meeting. The British were inclined to give way on admission of the Czechs and Poles to the conference table...
After his hug-slug-hug scrimmage in Moscow with Macmillan, Khrushchev turned up last week at the East German industrial capital of Leipzig to proclaim that what he wants is "peace, peace and more peace"-that it is "hotheads in the West" who threaten war by refusing to quit Berlin and sign a peace treaty with his puppet East German regime...
...audience, mostly representatives of Soviet, East German and Eastern European governments, cheered. Said Nikita: "We shall sign the peace treaty. We shall defend peace with all our force. We shall not yield. I have said it all before. But repetition is the mother of wisdom...