Word: oder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orders to pass on some of the specifics of the German stand. Items: Bonn cannot extend de facto recognition to East Germany, although it is willing, under certain conditions, to talk to East Germany about arrangements for an all-German election. West Germany cannot accept any formalization of the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland, any project for disengagement in Central Europe, any plan for Germany as a non-nuclear zone...
...France from a planned London meeting of Allied representatives to discuss Germany's future; his decision caused the cancellation of the sessions. De Gaulle feels strongly that the West must not allow itself to be threatened into negotiations by Khrushchev. De Gaulle himself has long ago conceded the Oder-Neisse line, and France at best pays only lip service to German reunification. De Gaulle's emphasis is on the maintenance of present Allied rights in West Germany and Berlin. He stands staunch against any sort of disengagement in Central Europe. against German troop limitations, and recognition of East...
...ODER-NEISSE RECOGNITION. It has been argued that the West should give official recognition to what is presently a fact of geographical life: the Oder-Neisse line, which divides East Germany from Germany's old Polish territories. This would perpetuate what West Germans now call the "Three Germanys"-West, East and Polish. But in any such threeway dismemberment of Germany lie the seeds of future war, and the West cannot recognize the Oder-Neisse line without at least a guarantee of eventual unification of West and East Germany...
...Acceptance of the Oder-Neisse line as the eastern border of East Germany (and, therefore, of a future United Germany...
...view, little or nothing. The existence of the East German regime and the Oder-Neisse line are facts of life that probably cannot be reversed short of war; as for West German atomic armaments. Adenauer wants them but the U.S. is far from eager to give them. With West Berlin's population already nervous, any change in West Berlin's status or in the size of Western forces there would pose a severe morale problem; but, after all, even the present number of Allied troops in the city (14,000) is not a force that could hold back...