Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Berlin by force would bring nuclear war (see FOREIGN NEWS). In his press conference President Eisenhower promised: "We stand firm on the rights and the responsibilities that we have undertaken" on behalf of non-Communist Germany. And in a Washington speech to the National Press Club, West German Ambassador Wilhelm G. Grewe expressed his government's deep-seated doubt that the German crisis can somehow be solved by "new approaches" in diplomatic maneuver...
...There is not much to negotiate on Berlin," said Grewe. As one example, he took the idea of legally integrating West Berlin into West Germany and replacing allied forces with German troops. Said Grewe: "The presence of German forces in Berlin can never have the political and psychological effect which the presence of the Western forces has." West Berlin, he said, stands as "a gap in the Iron Curtain" and is thus "a permanent obstacle to the effectiveness of totalitarian rule in Eastern Germany." What is needed, Grewe concluded, is "a cool head, strong nerves, unity and mutual confidence among...
There were seventeen problems: money; passports; tetanus-typhoid-yellow fever shots; a Greek landlady bearing an expensive product (Snyde would say, Beware! I hated him); reservations on a plane carrying ginger ale to be served with Dramamine at Gander; German, French, Italian, and Spanish for the Swiss Alps; Greek for the return voyage...How else could we preserve the rapture of passion which comes when you eat pastry at the Patisserie Cafe Morceau beside the girl you love...
...nations declared: "The member states of NATO could not approve a solution of the Berlin question which jeopardized the right of Western powers to remain in Berlin." Moreover, they declared that the Soviet Union would be responsible for any hampering of traffic between the West and the former German capital...
...Pasternak guards one of the few outposts of the "Other Russia" that exist in the U.S.S.R. On Sunday, over groaning helpings of zakuski (Russian hors d'oeuvres) and repeated toasts, Pasternak holds open house for bright young artists and intellectuals-or did until the Nobel Prize fracas. French, German or English may be spoken (Pasternak is fluent in all three). Pasternak asserts his aloofness from the Marxist world around him with quiet and kindly dignity. Once, in a conversation with a Swedish professor, he started to make some critical comment about Communism, then suddenly interrupted himself. "Possibly...