Word: germanized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...added, "that any discussion of a peace treaty means discussing the Eastern frontier question," i.e., risking endorsement of the present Oder-Neisse border with Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...
...West Berlin (pop. 2,200,000) now produces 25% more industrial goods than it did in 1936 and exports ten times as much as it did in 1950. All the world buys its machinery and its Siemens heavy electrical gear (generators for Mexico, transformers for South America). West German women wear Berlin's smartly tailored fashions. Three fancy new hotels have just opened, including the Berlin Hilton, featuring New York-style high prices and bellhops who hop to orders received by pocket radio. The only reason that West...
...become frightened," he told Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt and other rain-soaked welcomers at Tempelhof Airport, "we and our Western allies will master the situation." And then these two men, in accord on the big issues, went their separate politicking ways. Adenauer was careful to criticize West German Socialists like Ollenhauer, but not Socialist Brandt. And Brandt did not bother to campaign against his Christian Democratic opponent, Ernst Lemmer, a member of Adenauer's Cabinet...
...Federal Republic but free to run in quadripartite Berlin. The despised Communists campaigned with the slogan "A vote for the Communists is a vote for normalization" and "Vote against the occupation parties." At a claque-packed rally in West Berlin, white-maned Hermann Matern of the East German Politburo proclaimed that Western commercial planes have no right to fly over East Germany to West Berlin without his government's sovereign permission. "This situation must be brought in order," he blustered. Mayor Brandt sent his cops to protect the Communist rallies from irate West Berliners...
RAPACKI FEVER," said a prominent West German last week, "is everywhere these days." The symptoms of Rapacki fever-named after Red Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki-are: 1) loud protestations that something must be done at once to "relieve tensions" in General Europe; 2) the conviction that the prime source of these tensions lies in the present divided condition of Germany. Victims of Rapacki fever assume that there is little hope either for the U.S. to "roll back" Soviet forces from Eastern Europe or for the Russians to drive U.S. forces out of Western Europe. So they proclaim...