Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WEST GERMANY: Both German delegations were sitting in a strictly advisory capacity, and Bonn's Foreign Minister von Brentano would not even flatter the East Germans by his presence...
EAST GERMANY: The East German regime had at last been recognized by the imperialist West, with full participating rights in the conference...
...East and West Germans had been admitted only as advisers, could speak only if the Big Four agreed...
...Sided Story. To the newsman attempting to follow the briefings over the earphone sets provided by the Swiss in the press building, the foreign ministers' conference often seemed bewilderingly contradictory. On a typical night, after the foreign ministers had agreed to seat the East and West German delegations at separate tables (see FOREIGN NEWS), a correspondent switching from briefing to briefing would have heard...
...after day in his briefings, Soviet Press Officer Kharlamov repeated his claim that the East Germans had been made full participants-implying diplomatic recognition by the West. On both sides of the Iron Curtain some news outlets accepted the line. Cried Radio Warsaw: "Victory for the U.S.S.R." Cabled Correspondent Mamoru Kikuchi to the Japan Times: "East Germany has won de facto recognition." Such was the effect of the Communist pitch that at one point U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter felt obliged to spell out the West's attitude toward the East German regime during a conference session, persuaded...