Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that turned around Adenauer's failure to get any definite commitment on the reunification of his country. But the possibilities there were strictly limited. The Russians could have agreed to reunification, provided that the Germans agreed to get out of NATO. This was the hidden bait in the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer. The Russians knew how powerful in German public opinion is the drive to reunite their country. Any German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal-clear that...
...Moscow determined to press for the release of German prisoners of war still held by the Russians, and to get the Russians moving in the direction of German reunification. He got flat refusal of one, an oral promise on the other. From the outset it was clear that the Kremlin, for all the talk of a "Geneva spirit," was in no yielding mood, and the historic meeting almost broke up with no agreements at all. Midway through the talks, both sides conceded that they were getting nowhere. One morning, in his special train in Moscow's Leningrad station...
Breaking the Deadlock. That evening the diplomats assembled at a massive banquet in the Kremlin's St. George's Hall. Adenauer sat in the center, flanked by Bulganin and Khrushchev. The three men talked heatedly, emphasizing their points with gestures. At one point, Party Boss Khrushchev leaned across the German Chancellor and gabbed furiously at Bulganin. Then, in two quiet sentences, the Soviet Premier broke...
...chancellery on wheels," before the first session began, Adenauer counseled with his aides. They had few expectations. The fact of the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer-the formal recognition of a man they had so long reviled as an enemy, of a regime they had refused to recognize-was in itself bigger than anything that the visit itself was likely to produce. The Russians wanted to talk about formal diplomatic and economic relations between Moscow and Bonn, and to consider Germany's reunification only at the price of West Germany's withdrawal from the Western alliance. Adenauer...
...find anybody in Germany-not only among responsible politicians but also among the whole population-who even remotely entertains the notion that any of the great political problems awaiting a solution could be served by means of war." He extended that sentiment to his NATO allies. Since the Kremlin had bade him come and discuss "the normalization of relations," Adenauer laid down his terms. "I do not think it will suffice to outlaw war, to create security systems and to establish, so to speak, in a mechanical way, diplomatic, economic and cultural relations," said Adenauer. Two important Soviet deeds were...