Word: thorsten
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Argument Won. At the hearings, the State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, who helped negotiate the original agreement, tried to justify the deal. He said that the routes were necessary to keep West Germany from restricting U.S. airlines, and to win the right for U.S. lines to carry passengers from Germany around the world. Said Kalijarvi: "The [U.S.] airlines are their own worst enemy. They can't act like this and achieve order in the international airlines business. The Germans are going to have one of the world's biggest airlines, and they will...