Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From their rose-tinted window on the West, Brown's lieutenants see their rivals thus...
...Once Germany is reunited and peace treaties are signed, Berlin becomes the German capital, and the need for keeping allied troops in West Berlin is ended. Western powers would then offer the East treaties safeguarding against any new menace of German imperialism...
...battle, the West was ready. And after all the months of doubts and suspicions, it took the four Western Foreign Ministers only two days in Paris to agree on their strategy. The ground had been well prepared...
Going into next week's session with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the West will operate from a 20-page "Phased Plan," the result of considering hundreds of position papers. In some respects it goes farther than what the West put forward at the fruitless Geneva summit session in 1955. Though still insisting that German reunification must be brought about through free elections, it no longer insists on elections first. And it makes ingenious use of the Russian notion that reunification is something for the two Germanies to solve themselves. Main points...
...German Electoral Committee" would be nominated by the West and East German governments in a proportion, based on population, of 25 West Germans to ten East Germans. The committee would arrange increasing commercial exchanges-more trains, buses, mail, books, newspapers-culminating in adoption of a common currency. After a period of "at least three years," during which progress could be measured and trust justified, the committee would prepare legislation for free, all-German elections...