Word: ulbricht
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...treaty, the Western answers argue that no treaty is possible until the completion of negotiations on German reunification. To the chief Soviet threat-a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which would force Berlin-bound Allied convoys to deal with the Volkspolizei of belligerent Puppet Chief of State Walter Ulbricht-the West will firmly answer that it will accept no curbs on the indisputable Allied right of free access to Berlin...
...greatest enterprise; his agents were able to develop the techniques, so useful later in eastern Europe, by which a Communist minority can influence and finally take over a popular wartime regime. Also, he trained in the NKVD or the Spanish SIM, a corps of future Red quislings-Togliatti. Ulbricht, Malinovsky, Tito. Without endorsing Franco, many readers will draw the hard conclusion from Historian Thomas' documents that if the Madrid-Barcelona republic had beaten Franco, it would have been as a Communist or "people's" republic...
Border Bonfires. Everyone understood Nikita's problems. He had to keep Walter Ulbricht happy and hopeful, for beleaguered East Germany is still the machine shop of the Communist bloc, supplying tools, autos and heavy equipment to virtually all the satellite nations in the COMECON trade partnership. Khrushchev was also under pressure to produce a success of some kind for October's 22nd Party Congress in Moscow, when all his policies will come under scrutiny...
...West was going to war if Khrushchev simply signed a peace treaty with East Germany's Ulbricht. But the Western allies were pledged-and prepared-to fight if necessary to protect the 2,200,000 doughty West Berliners and their life line to the West...
...Bonn government nervously canceled plans to hold a symbolic meeting of the Bundesrat (upper house) in West Berlin. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer grimly called on West Berliners to "hold firm on the certain hope for reunification, peace and freedom." Needing no urging, tough West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt defied Ulbricht's warnings, addressed a mass rally at city hall to mark the eighth anniversary of the East German uprising. At dusk, thousands gathered to hear Brandt cry: "We will survive because we have good friends." All over the city, West Berliners put candles in their windows and lit huge bonfires...