Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week announced that it was willing to lift the Berlin blockade-at a price. Moscow made two conditions: 1) the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers must meet again to discuss the question of a single currency for Berlin "together with other questions bearing on Germany;" 2) the Western Powers must lift their counter-blockade by which they have prevented trade between Germany's eastern and western zones...
...still Western Germany, whose recovery and independence Moscow had consistently tried to prevent...
...West seemed ready to agree to another Big Four conference, and to lift its counter-blockade. But it was not willing to abandon its plans for Western Germany. Day before the Tass announcement, the Western Powers reported full agreement with the West Germans on their proposed constitution. West Germany was closer to statehood than ever before (see below...
Everything seemed to be going wrong at Bonn. The Social Democratic Party bitterly fought the Western Powers' "interference" in the work of the constitutional convention because it tended to impose too many limitations upon German sovereignty. The Western Allies, cried the Socialists, were trying to create a federal republic with such a weak central government that it could never properly govern. The Socialists were equally mad at their fellow Germans in the Christian Democratic Union, which was stringing along with the plans for a weaker government. At a Socialist meeting in Hannover last week, gaunt, one-armed, one-legged...
...wires buzzed between Washington and U.S. officials in Germany. Next, the State Department's old Germany hand, Robert Murphy, left his desk at half a day's notice, flew to Germany. After days of conferences, Schumacher's Socialists finally let themselves be persuaded to accept the Western Powers' concessions...