Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first and Mitchell walked back for the car. Returning, he saw the rest of the party gathered in a semicircle, curiously examining a mysterious object they had discovered in the woods. The kids had stumbled upon one of the 9,000 balloon bombs launched from Japan against the U.S. West Coast...
...world had seen Russians smile before. Was there greater cause for hope this time? It was certainly wrong to assume, as some observers in the West did, that talking to the Russians was useless. It was also wrong to think that, by talking to the Russians, a permanent settlement between the democracies and communism could be achieved. But between these two extremes there was plenty of room for a settlement of specific issues. For this the world could, and did, have hopes...
...Paris, where Dean Acheson had been meeting over the weekend with France's Robert Schuman and Britain's Ernie Bevin, the West announced complete solidarity. Acheson, who is in his first major encounter with the Russians, will presumably carry the ball for the West...
...position on the eve of the conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...
Three Times as Much. The conference's opening session got under way. With remarkable speed, the Ministers agreed on a four-point conference agenda proposed by the West: 1) problems of German unity, including "economic and political principles" and Four-Power control; 2) Berlin, including the currency question; 3) preparation of a peace treaty for Germany; 4) consultation on a peace treaty for Austria (the Foreign Ministers' deputies have vainly tried to draft an Austrian treaty for the past 2½ years). Vishinsky also suggested that a peace treaty for Japan be taken up, but Acheson countered that...