Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gromyko & Co. labored endlessly, too, to build up the prestige of their East German stooges and to label the West Germans as neo-Nazi warmongers. Although both East and West Germans had been admitted to the conference at separate tables only as "advisers," the Russians demanded that the speeches of Lothar Bolz, East Germany's pompous, vitriol-spewing Foreign Minister, be published as part of the official conference record. (Refusing, the conference secretariat noted that the question was one on which there was "permanent disagreement.") And at the week's first formal session, Gromyko, who was chairman, broke...
Stung, Christian Herter soon evened the score. Coldly noting that 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...
Minimum price the West was prepared to accept for going on to the summit was at least provisional Russian agreement to respect the present status of West Berlin. There were signs that the Russians might be willing. Fortnight ago Gromyko, in private conversation with Herter, came close to disavowing the May 27 deadline for Western evacuation of Berlin set by Khrushchev last November. And from Moscow last week came a pointed announcement that Nikita himself planned to be away in Albania on deadline...
...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...
...modern specifications, emergency medical treatment, food, clothing and shelter. For ten years, since the end of the Israeli war in 1949, UNRWA has been helping support 1,000,000 Arab refugees in 58 camps around Israel's borders. Richer Arabs say it is up to the West to help their poor Arab brethren, because it was the West that invited Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis, for their part, are willing to take back only a selected few of the refugees. The U.S., which pays 70% of UNRWA's $33 million annual budget, wants...