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...East Germans want West Germany to grant them full diplomatic recognition so that their part of Germany may take its place as a full-fledged sovereign nation in the world community. Brandt is willing to grant de jure recognition to East Germany-but with two important reservations. In accord with his formula of two German "states" within one "nation," he maintains that the Federal Republic will never regard the German Democratic Republic as a foreign country. He also holds that Germans of both countries will always share a common citizenship. Moreover, before he will consider granting diplomatic recognition to East...
...resigned 20 years later to become U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, he had moonlighted in wartime Washington as one of half a dozen key figures managing the development of the atomic bomb. While he never made the Cabinet, in 1955 he became the first American ambassador to the newly sovereign Bonn government. Before and since, he has sowed sensible, evolutionary ideas in U.S. education...
...behalf of the stockholders of the copper-rich Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, the U.S. pressures the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold (George Voskovec), to accede to the murder of the Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba (Louis Gossett). At the very least, this proposition proves that a sovereign contempt for the playgoers' intelligence is not confined to Broadway...
...recognition by declaring: "It is a basic truth that internationally valid agreements on the renunciation of force can only be concluded between states that recognize each other in international law." Thus, he added, Bonn "must prove the seriousness of its intentions by recognizing the German Democratic Republic as a sovereign state...
...point in playing with formula and compromise suggestions"), endorsed the building of more Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and stressed that her government would settle for nothing less than a genuine peace accord in which the Arabs would accept Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state...