Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union, Khrushchev went on blandly, wants to cut armed forces right now-and worry about schemes for inspection later. He dismissed the U.S. plan as "too cautious." And he rejected U.S. insistence that German reunification must be a precondition of general disarmament, as "a package deal" that the Soviet would "never...
Turning on those members who think he should climb down and ask Moscow's price for German unity, he growled: "After the results of the London negotiations there can no longer be any man in Germany who thinks the time has come to begin something with the Russians." Though many delegates felt that the old man's foreign policy had not borne fruit, only one dared openly to question its inflexibility. When Berlin Deputy Ferdinand Friedensburg suggested in an almost painfully respectful little speech that perhaps Germany should have alternative policies on reunification, the Chancellor leaped...
...night at 7 o'clock, an angry, chunky Soviet colonel named Ivan Kotsiuba called a press conference in East Berlin. Purpose: to protest the building by "American organizations" of a secret tunnel under East German territory, "with the criminal intent of spying." Offered a chance to see for themselves, the Western newsmen were taken to a site some 500 yards from the radar station at Rudow...
...entrance a hole cut in the roof by the Russians, lay the tunnel itself: a cast-iron tube about six feet in diameter and 500-600 yards long, crammed with electronic equipment, cables, tape recorders, ventilating apparatus and pumps of both British and American make. At the East German end, cables led out of the main body of the tunnel to a separate chamber where they were linked to two East German cables and a third used by the Russians. What was at the American end? The newsmen were not permitted to know. As they crawled westward, a sandbag barrier...
Word leaked out that German Munitions Magnate Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, barred from the U.S. as a convicted Nazi war criminal, nonetheless visited New York City last month. It was not his fault. Flying from London to the Bahamas for a vacation, Krupp was plunked down by surprise in the U.S. when his plane developed engine trouble. To ease its passengers' eight-hour delay, British Overseas Airways Corp. arranged a Manhattan sightseeing tour, dragged visaless Krupp along despite his spirited protests. After a gander at the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, the TIME & LIFE Building...