Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...allies, Adenauer for once faced East-West affairs with irresolution. At Berlin, the Communists were edging in on the Western position by what Mayor Brandt now called "artichoke tactics"-taking a leaf at a time. In violation of four-power agreements but obviously with Soviet approval, East German Communists have applied one small pressure after another-not against Allied personnel, not even against West Berliners, but against West Germans. For two months now, they have been determining who could and who could not enter East Berlin; and by refusing to accept West German passports held by West Berliners, they have...
More Nibbles. As a symbolic gesture to support the claim that Berlin is part and parcel of West Germany, the West German Bundestag has regularly met once a year in West Berlin. This year's session was scheduled to be held this fall, but the East Germans declared that the meeting would be considered provocative; Adenauer ordered the session postponed-probably indefinitely...
...flabbergasted Erhard remarked stiffly: "I did not come here to talk to you but with our African friends." Smirnov turned on his heel and stalked up the aisle, where a German attendant, not realizing it was the Soviet ambassador, grabbed his arm and marched him out of the hall. The 60-odd Africans present remained silent. But Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had to warn angry Germans in the audience that Smirnov had diplomatic immunity...
...BUSCH-REISINGER will continue to show "Reality and Imagination: A Century of German Art, 1860-1960", until...
Part of the phenomenon is the author himself. André Schwarz-Bart, 32, is largely self-taught. Born in the long-embattled French-German border city of Metz, the son of a Polish-Jewish peddler, Andre spoke Yiddish as his first language and picked up French in the streets while selling newspapers to help support his family. At 14, after the Nazis invaded France, Andre lost his parents to the gas chambers, subsequently escaped a French internment camp to join the Maquis, and was finally mustered out of the French army at an underage 17. As a postwar tractor-factory...