Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time in Berlin. Reading slowly at lecture pace from a prepared text, .Premier Khrushchev announced: "The time has come when the powers who signed the Potsdam agreement should give up the remnants of the German occupation regime. The Soviet Union, for its part, will hand over those functions which it still retains in Berlin to the sovereign German Democratic Republic [meaning Communist-run East Germany], and the U.S., French and British can form their own relations with East Germany if they still have questions about Berlin...
...East Germany Premier Otto Grote-wohl seemed almost in a hurry to say, shortly after Khrushchev's speech, that nothing "sensational" was about to happen-then, correcting his initial announcement, added that, "naturally," Russian troops are likely to withdraw only when Western forces pull...
Before long, Premier Amintore Fanfani felt called upon to protest to the British Foreign Office. When the F.O. refused responsibility for Monty's opinions, Rome's Fascist ll Secolo snapped: "Pontius Pilate, sneering, washes his hands in the Thames." The Greeks, indignant about Cyprus and eager to join in any British-baiting, jumped in with praise of the "fighting spirit," in offense and defense, of the Italians who invaded Greece in 1940. Last week, at the personal request of British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Monty penned a letter to the British Ambassador in Rome, which he said...
...city in case trouble started in the King's absence, now wanted to march on Syria's Damascus. Troops swarmed in the streets of Amman, firing shots in the air, shouting: "Long live Hussein!" and "Hussein, we are your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting of the Arab League Council to take action. U.A.R. officials replied that Hussein's plane had been crossing...
...spell out, however, whether he would risk a new East-West crisis by also transferring to Premier Otto Grotewhohl's Red regime the supervision of traffic between West Berlin and West Germany...