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Western (W): Germany (WG). Weekly Reports on Situation in GDR, 20 December 1956 to 18 December 1957

1957

A file of weekly reports concerning developments in West Germany between April and December 1957. The reports discuss a visit by Harold Macmillan, the British prime minister, to West Germany; and the cancellation of a return visit by Konrad Adenauer, the West German chancellor, to London due to illness. The reports also cover the holding of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Bonn; the reaction of the West German government to the Soviets' successful launch of Sputnik 1; and a motion by the Social Democratic Party of Germany calling for the West German government to renounce the arming of the West German army with nuclear weapons, and to withhold the right for foreign powers to store nuclear weapons on West German territory. Other reports comment on the year's federal election, at which Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union of Germany won an absolute majority in the West German Bundestag.
elections north atlantic treaty organization (nato) disarmament international relations nuclear weapons politicians political parties soviet union domestic politics east germany west germany soviet foreign policy West German foreign policy Soviet-West German relations East German-West German relations Anglo-West German relations West German politics Christian Democratic Union of Germany (C.D.U.) Sputnik launches Soviet space programme Nikita Khrushchev threat of nuclear war Social Democratic Party of Germany (S.P.D.) West German government Harold Macmillan Anastas Mikoyan Free Democratic Party of Germany (F.D.P.) Christopher Steel Konrad Adenauer Otto Grotewohl Erich Ollenhauer Germany (East and West) Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo Launch of Sputnik 1
Collection ID
FO371
Countries
East Germany Soviet Union West Germany
Department Reference
Code WG file 1013 (pp 19 to end)
Document Type
Reports
File Reference
FO 371/130687
Identifier
10.1080/cwee.fo371.130687
Key Events
Launch of Sputnik 1
Note
Contrary to the catalogue title, this file covers West Germany, but was nonetheless included in the resource.
Pages
101
Persons Discussed
Anastas Mikoyan Christopher Steel Erich Ollenhauer Harold Macmillan Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo Konrad Adenauer Nikita Khrushchev Otto Grotewohl
Published in
United Kingdom
Subject Countries
Germany (East and West)
Themes
Domestic Politics International Relations

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