Word: grotewohl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Otto Grotewohl, in a belligerent speech before East Germany's Parliament, outlined an uncompromising policy that undoubtedly foreshadowed the stand Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will take at Geneva...
...speech Grotewohl declared: "The question of reunification is an internal German affair and will not be a matter for debate at Geneva...
...Premier Amintore Fanfani, the first top Western statesman to visit Cairo in two years, was there to argue a special Italian affinity for Arabs. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah passed through; Lebanon's new Premier Rashid Karami dropped in to mend fences; and East Germany's Otto Grotewohl made a formal call on Nasser. Afterwards Grotewohl announced that the two countries, while not generally recognizing one another, would establish "consular relations." West Germany, true to its insistence that it will break off relations with any nation that recognizes Communist East Germany, sent its ambassador over to ask Nasser...
Communist East Germany's Premier Otto Grotewohl welcomed the Soviet plan, as a great concession to the West. Grotewohl, in a statement, reminded West Berliners that his regime is not backing off on its claim that all Berlin belongs to East Germany...
...Soviet maneuver seems designed primarily to force Western recognition of Otto Grotewohl's East German regime. Last winter Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced that any negotiations over German unification must be made with East Germany directly; the present demand appears to be another similarly motivated tactic. So far, the German Democratic Republic has applied no pressure comparable to that of the Soviets during the blockade of 1948-49. But if the East Germans decide to bear down on West Berlin--by closing the corridors or stopping free interchange between city sectors--then the allied authorities in Berlin may be forced...