Word: rapacki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division of Germany into nations, one free, one Communist. Fearful of changing the status quo in Germany but equally fearful of doing nothing, statesmen of a dozen nations are today earnestly reexamining solutions to the problem proposed by ingenious men ranging from Poland's Communist Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki to Britain's Sir Anthony Eden. For a concise guide to these past proposals and the future possibilities, see FOREIGN NEWS, What To Do About Germany...
...RAPACKI FEVER," said a prominent West German last week, "is everywhere these days." The symptoms of Rapacki fever-named after Red Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki-are: 1) loud protestations that something must be done at once to "relieve tensions" in General Europe; 2) the conviction that the prime source of these tensions lies in the present divided condition of Germany. Victims of Rapacki fever assume that there is little hope either for the U.S. to "roll back" Soviet forces from Eastern Europe or for the Russians to drive U.S. forces out of Western Europe. So they proclaim...
...RAPACKI PLAN. For more than a year, Poland's Foreign Minister has been plumping for creation of a "denuclearized" zone to consist of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany. In its present version-revised, according to Rapacki, to "meet Western objections"-the Rapacki Plan would begin by banning production of nuclear weapons in these four countries and restricting atomic armaments in the area to such forces as already have them, to wit, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The next step-complete denuclearization of the area-would take place only after agreement was reached on "appropriate reduction of conventional forces...
...GAITSKELL PLAN. More ambitious than Rapacki, British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell calls for the reunification of Germany by free elections and the evacuation of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary by all foreign troops. To take his buffer zone completely out of the cold war, Gaitskell would have West Germany leave NATO and East Germany leave the Warsaw Pact; the frontiers of all the buffer zone nations would then be guaranteed by Britain, France, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...final settlement of the Berlin problem probably must attend the settlement of other issues. If disarmament could be agreed upon, then many of the hurdles in the path of reunification could be removed. Until that time, partial demilitarization of Central Europe as envisaged in the Eden and Rapacki plans may be a healthy temporary move. It would not leave Germany a neutral unit helpless before Soviet subversion, but it might lower the tension to some degree and stimulate further disarmament...