Word: oder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussed and approved in advance the French President's moves to block an early summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that it was carrying arms...
...Zeitung complained: "De Gaulle has assigned us the role of mere pedestal for his power." The long-moribund refugee organizations-which claim to speak for more than 12 million Germans exiled from German lands now in Communist hands-visited Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that traditional North German trade ties to Britain and Scandinavia would be hurt...
...black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed into smithereens 14 years before. Placards said: THE CITY OF PORZ GREETS EISENHOWER -TROISDORF WELCOMES YOU-GERMANY TRUSTS EISENHOWER. Mixed among them were placards pleading for help in regaining Germany's lost Oder-Neisse territories, now held by Communist Poland: MILLIONS ARE FREE, MILLIONS ARE NOT FREE. The President waved to everybody, said again and again, "Thank you, thank...
...fears that his allies might be preparing to undercut Germany's position in negotiations with Russia; he felt deep dismay over John Foster Dulles' illness and the new American faces he must deal with; he felt pain at De Gaulle's public acceptance of the Oder-Neisse line as the German frontier on the east. His suspicions of the British burst out in the open before the week...
...Germanys. But then he added carefully, "provided they do not reopen the question of their present frontiers to the west, the east, the north and the south." These were the strongest words ever used by a Western leader in favor of setting Germany's eastern boundary at the Oder-Neisse...