Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a curtained irony to the whole affair. For months, Moscow had watched with glee as Charles de Gaulle hacked away intransigently at the NATO alliance. Now, on the other side of the eroding Iron Curtain, the Russians were getting a taste of the same galling medicine. Out of many Eastern European capitals last week came reports of a Rumanian round-robin message to the nations of the Warsaw Pact...
Still, Ceausescu has something to gain merely by causing tremors in the Iron Curtain. At the Soviet 23rd Party Congress last March, Brezhnev called for a "strengthening" of the Communist alliance, and later hinted at a Warsaw Pact meeting to be held, of all places, in Bucharest. Such a meeting would dangerously strengthen Russian restraint on Rumania's independence of action. By circulating the anti-alliance note, Ceausescu might well have torpedoed the meeting, and at the same time won greater maneuvering room for his own nation...
Adenauer saw that the old, Roman Catholic -oriented Center Party of Weimar days could no longer survive in a Germany divided first by occupation zones, then by the Iron Curtain. His Christian Democratic Union split the Center, encouraged Protestant and peasant membership, and in 1949 edged out the older, better organized Socialist Party of Kurt Schumacher to win Germany's first free election in a generation. Then began the adroit maneuvering that brought Germany into NATO and won back the Saar coal and steel complex that France had taken. In 1953, he made his first trip...
...land, fronted by two six-ft. fences of barbed wire, patrolled by armed Hungarian border police and Hungarian dogs, and secured by the Hungarians - since the early days of the cold war - by some 7,000,000 little brown boxes containing lethal charges of TNT. As the Iron Curtain wears thin, the mines are be coming as much of an embarrassment as a hindrance to trespassers. Stray cats or even a speedy thaw sets them off in the night, and in last year's torrential floods a great many mines sown on hillsides along the boundary-marking Pinka...
That was rare Red praise for the non-Communist Rumanians who shared prison cells and torture at the hands of the Iron Guard during World War II. But it tied in neatly with Ceausescu's emphasis on "the nation as a form of human community." With Gaullist gall, Ceausescu also struck out against "military blocs" as "incompatible with the national independence and sovereignty of peoples." Was he suggesting a walkout from the Warsaw Pact...