Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin question is the only obstacle to East-West harmony. Bitterly, Adenauer points out that, while Khrushchev preaches "relaxation of tensions" everywhere else, he loses no opportunity to vilify West Germany. In their latest exchange of notes, Khrushchev compared Adenauer to Hitler in three separate passages, accused the West German government of encouraging anti-Semitism and plotting...
Worse yet, Adenauer is deeply suspicious that the U.S. and Britain are resigned to accepting eventual East German control of the land routes to West Berlin. Fortnight ago, acting with West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, Adenauer presented Western summit planners with a memorandum declaring that West Berlin is legally a state of the West German Federal Republic. The implication: West Germany has the right to veto any summit decision on Berlin that the Germans find unacceptable. But the Anglo-American view of Berlin's status is that their own rights as World War II victors constitute...
Willy Brandt is more tactful, but just as insistent, in pressing West Germany's claim. Says he: "The word 'veto' overplays the whole thing. West Germany is part of the Western community. It is normal for the Western powers not to make a decision about a German city without the approval of the German government. If they did otherwise, there would be very deplorable consequences...
...vague visions of a more "flexible" Italian foreign policy. In a long, menacing toast, Khrushchev bluntly warned that Russia would not relax its hold over Communist East Germany ("The situation created by World War II cannot be changed without a war"); he was not interested in West German views ("We cannot accept conditions from men who were beaten at Stalingrad"), then launched into a series of unfavorable comparisons between Italy and Russia...
...many Britons, the almost instinctive hostility to the House of Mountbatten goes back to the anti-German feeling of World War I, when Wagner's music was banned from the Albert Hall and to have a German name could mean getting the sack. Most prominent victim of the anti-German feeling of the day was no less a personage than Britain's German-born First Sea Lord, Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, who had been a British subject for 46 years...