Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might show cracks under the stresses of Soviet probing. And the Soviet delegation, headed by tough Andrei Gromyko, would be ready to broaden and exploit any Western fissures. Even before the conference got under way, the Russians started the probing by demanding a conference-table seat for the East German puppet government. And while Nikita Khrushchev genially popped over to inspect the U.S. exhibit abuilding for the Moscow fair last week, the West caught an echo of the missile-rattling Khrushchev when he told a group of visiting West German editors that in any nuclear war "the Western powers would...
...summit if the Geneva meeting gives "some promise that a summit meeting would have a reasonable prospect of advancing the cause of peace." Afterward, "official spokesmen" passed the word that the West would not go to the summit at all if the Russians made any move to alter the German situation unilaterally...
...good tennis and squash-rackets player, who tastefully collects art objects from around the world, and has a proper, frosty appearance. But the frost melts away when he smiles and stretches out a huge hand in greeting. He speaks five languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German), and in more than 30 years of U.S. diplomacy has led a fast-moving life in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Items...
...listened carefully but without comment to Herter's presentation of the plan, which includes at least half a dozen modifications of long-held Western views on Berlin, German unification, and European security...
Gromyko was making an obvious move to build up prestige for the East German Communist regime...