Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transfer of control of West Berlin to the West German government was proposed by Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of Government, at a conference Saturday sponsored by the University of New Hampshire...
...transfer would counter Russia's plan to turn East Berlin over to the East German government and would put the West on the diplomatic offensive, Friedrich claimed. In addition, the move would re-establish the legal status in Berlin of the United States, France, and Britain...
...week long, Khrushchev took the line that the only German-in fact, the only Westerner-with whom the Soviet Union really had any quarrel was Bonn's steely old Chancellor Adenauer. Chief victim of this gambit was Erich Ollenhauer, colorless leader of West Germany's Social Democratic opposition, who incautiously accepted an invitation to go and talk with Khrushchev in East Berlin, so long as no Communist East Germans were present. (Socialist Mayor Brandt, cagier than his party boss, coldly refused a similar invitation.) Ollenhauer emerged from his two-hour talk with Nikita with the announced conviction that...
Jetting home to Moscow late in the week, Khrushchev exuded confidence. Still, after all his dickerings with his East German satraps, he had not taken the crucial step of unilaterally giving them a "peace treaty," as he had promised to. That step, he knew, might prejudice his chances of getting a heads-of-government summit meeting...
...general student and to include discouraging language prerequisities. While translations always fall short of readings in the original language, there is little nonpoetic literature that cannot be studied with profit in English. The fact that only one language is required where works in both, say, French and German are read, is tacit admission that neither is really necessary. It would be better merely to recommend a language and require it only of graduate students in the field, as is regularly done in Slavic courses...