Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faith in their eventual liberation. Huffed Khrushchev: "The American authors of these far from religious 'Christmas' messages [are] desirous of changing the order of things. This in no way accords with the spirit of Geneva and is crude interference in the internal affairs of free and sovereign states...
...objective of Soviet conduct is to make Russia's East German satellite look like a sovereign state with which West Germany would be compelled to deal if the German nation is ever to be reunified...
...sanctions. In a recent case, indeed, a respectable member of the [Moslem] Virtue Committee was consigned to prison for daring to criticize the laxity of the regime. Laymen have suffered similarly for the same offense, and foreigners banished. Almost imperceptibly a police state has usurped the functions of the sovereign Islamic...
...called on the Soviet commandant. Major General P. T. Dibrova, to protest the Volkspolizei's "lawless . . . ruffianism," and to say that of all the incidents in recent years, "I consider this the most serious." Dibrova replied that he could not accept the protest. Reason: East Germany is a sovereign state now; East Berlin is its capital, and no longer a Russian-occupied sector. Dibrova's statement was dutifully echoed by the East German official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland, which condemned the West for taking refuge behind "nonexistent four-power status...
Plainly, this was one more move in the Communist gambit to force the West to deal with satellite East Germany as a sovereign nation. Britain, France and the U.S. got off blunt protests to Soviet Ambassador Georgy Pushkin, announcing that they would continue to hold Russia responsible "for the welfare and proper treatment" of all their citizens in the Soviet sector of Berlin. U.S. Ambassador James B. Conant went further. He hurried to Berlin, defiantly drove through the heart of East Berlin with U.S. and ambassadorial flags flying. "We will remain in Berlin until Germany has been unified," announced Conant...