Word: unificationism
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The drive which produced NATO and propelled Europe onto the road to unification was gone. The European Army Plan (EDC), nearly three years from its conception, stood farther than ever from realization (see box). Italy decided it could now afford to scuttle dependable old Alcide de Gasperi (see FOREIGN NEWS...
The 77-year-old Chancellor vigorously repudiates this point of view. So does the U.S. "I do not and have never accepted the theory that EDC and [German] unification are mutually exclusive," wrote President Eisenhower in an open letter to Adenauer. "Quite the contrary." EDC, said the President, is "the...
It was a blow to democracy in Italy, and a blow to the Western alliance. Italy had, temporarily at least, rejected the leader who for eight years had fought steadfastly for parliamentary democracy while surrounded by parliamentarians dedicated to the destruction of democracy. The West had, at a crucial moment...
Diplomacy. At their foreign ministers' conference in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Big Three got Chancellor Adenauer off an embarrassing hook. Communist propaganda has stressed one magic word: Einheit (unity). The West's (and Adenauer's) answer was more complicated to explain and less attractive to sell...
Dulles was in a somewhat awkward position. He expected the meeting to produce nothing new on the old problems-Korea, German unification, the European Defense Community, NATO, Indo-China. Such questions were, and would continue to be, under constant discussion among the three nations at several diplomatic levels. On the...