Word: communique
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just to be sure that the Russians know that NATO is braced for whatever crises they want to create in the next ten years, the NATO Council closed its three-day session with a brief communiqué noting its "unanimous determination to maintain the freedom of the people of West Berlin, and the rights and obligations of the Allied powers...
...noted last week, "by the time he got it home, Mr. Macmillan's diplomatic luggage was pretty light." In the face of French, German and U.S. skepticism, Macmillan had dropped one pet concept after another. In the beginning the British press, taking its cue from the Macmillan-Khrushchev communiqué which mentioned a possible limitation of weapons "in an agreed area of Europe," had talked eagerly of steps toward "disengagement" of Western and Soviet forces in Central Europe. Macmillan's aides diluted this to a "thinning out" of the military, and finally to a simple "freeze" that would...
...party boss, coldly refused a similar invitation.) Ollenhauer emerged from his two-hour talk with Nikita with the announced conviction that "all efforts are being made on the Soviet side to avoid a conflict." But, being a little inexperienced in such methods, he discovered later that in the communiqué regarding his visit, he had inadvertently been lulled into assenting to the need to "end the Western occupation of Berlin." Brooded Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel: "Ollenhauer as a responsible spokesman for Germany is a dreadful thought...
...firmly conveyed to the Soviet leader the danger of misunderstanding the West's determination to remain in Berlin. In public he answered Khrushchev's call for a non-aggression pact by proposing that "our disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force." In the final communiqué his aides put in a few words, which the Russians did not bother to object to, in favor of discussing a "thinning out" of troops along the Iron Curtain. This was designed to take some of the steam out of Labor's election-year drive for "disengagement...
After that, there was a daily airlift of captured Africans: 249 were arrested and 136 deported, among them Nyasaland's only African lawyer and only African physician. Hour after hour the government press office, its walls anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African...