Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gromyko "not only today but on other occasions" had accused NATO and West Germany of planning aggressive war, Herter reminded the conference that "the tensions that have required the Western powers through ordinary prudence to protect themselves" have been "tensions created -and created in many cases deliberately -by the Soviet government." Many more such Soviet charges, he warned, would mean that "our desire to negotiate seriously would be nullified very rapidly...
...conference as we see it lies in separating out those questions that weigh most heavily on the relations between states . . . The Soviet government believes that the question of the conclusion of a [World War II] peace treaty with the two German states should be taken up first and the Berlin question be settled on this basis by transforming West Berlin into a free city...
...particularly categorical judgments, I wondered why we Westerners had ever taken the trouble to draft this plan which we hoped in good faith might at least be discussed . . . [Mr. Gromyko's] reply moves me, indeed, to remark, adapting a French saying, that in discussion with the Soviet delegation, we pay for our past concessions...
...deadly sins with which Mr. Gromyko charges this Western proposal is what I might call the sin of being a package plan . . . All we have done, which indeed complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...
...Soviet proposals are based on the assertion that German reunification is not a present-day problem, and can therefore be left until later. Nor is it a problem within the jurisdiction of the Big Four . . . The draftsmen of the Potsdam Treaties-U.S., Soviet Union and United Kingdom-would have been extremely surprised if they had been told that things would work out this way. Did they not point out very clearly that the peace treaty must be concluded with an all-German government? In fact, how could they possibly have imagined any other solution...