Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liaison officer rushed a copy of the occupation statute to the deadlocked constitutional assembly at Bonn, with an urgent appeal from the Western Foreign Ministers to accept it and get cracking with their draft of a German constitution...
...German politicians at Bonn went into a huddle, announced that they would withhold "official" comment for several days. But it was already clear that the Socialists -who had made the loudest demands for a more centralized Western German state" -were bitterly opposed to the new agreement. Berlin's Socialist newspaper Sozial-demokrat called the statute's stringent restrictions on German sovereignty "reasons for sorrow...
...Western German recovery; the U.S. stood committed to resist that pressure, as was underlined last week in a U.S. Army Day parade at the training grounds at Grafen-wöhr, Bavaria (see cut). In this situation the Socialists-for all their good intentions-would be irresponsible in rejecting the best offer which the Western allies could for the time being make...
...threat to peace, were expected to raise a major row about it in the Assembly. Actually, as Australian Assembly President Herbert ("Doc") Evatt pointed out, the charter provides for regional defense pacts within U.N.'s general framework. The Atlantic pact presented the Russians with the fact of Western unity. It was hard to see how the alternative-Western weakness and division-would have strengthened U.N.'s councils...
...admission to the Atlantic pact. Three days after his Foreign Minister signed the pact in Washington, Portugal's dictator-and Spain's good neighbor- Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar declared that Spain's exclusion from the pact was a "geographical and strategical weakness" in the "Western front." *In the Security Council, Russia last week used her 30th veto to block the admission of Korea to U.N. membership...