Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poland. At the end of World War II, when the Russians were sponsoring a Communist-dominated regime in Poland, this land grab, which had greatly embittered the Poles, proved embarrassing to Moscow. The Russians suggested that Poland be compensated for her loss in the east by some choice German territory along her western borders. At Potsdam, for the sake of "harmony" with Russia, the U.S. and Britain agreed that Poland was to administer "provisionally" the strip of German territory east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, "pending the final determination of Poland's western frontier...
...territory would eventually be returned to Germany; Communists in Poland have insisted that the territory would stay with the Poles. Moscow itself kept mum-until last week. To Warsaw journeyed East Germany's Red boss, Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht, to return with a treaty in which the East German government formally ratified the cession of the German territory to Poland...
...announced it did not recognize the new treaty. Following recent Russian announcements that no more German prisoners of war would be repatriated and that Eastern Germany would continue to pay reparations to Russia for another 15 years, the deal would further embitter Germans against Communism. But Washington believed that Moscow would try to sugar the pill for Germans by withdrawing Russian occupation troops from Germany, which would mean nothing since Russian interests in East Germany are well safeguarded by a German Communist army (TIME...
...Western newsmen. Rumania is still tighter; it does not even admit Communist reporters from Hungary. No Western correspondents are welcome in Soviet-occupied Eastern Germany either, except on special occasions. To get news from the Soviet zone, the Western newsmen are forced to rely on 1) Soviet-controlled German newspapers, 2) the Soviet-licensed German news agency, 3) clandestine sources. Knowing this, the propaganda-wise Russians sometimes plant phony stories, wait until Western newsmen swallow the Soviet bait, then denounce their "mendacity...
...will withdraw from Germany in 1952. 2. Germany should be politically integrated into a free Europe. 3. There will be no German army or air force. 4. The German people, subject to certain considerations, should have the widest freedom. 5. The U.S. will continue to aid Berlin...