Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...status to become a full-fledged, sovereign nation. This Nikita Khrushchev has promised time and time again since 1958, as he has threatened to sign a peace treaty and let the German Democratic Republic take over its own affairs (including control of the West's presence in, and access to, Berlin). The current mood in Moscow is to give Ulbricht his treaty this fall. So far, virtually no important non-Communist nation has recognized the G.D.R. diplomatically, but Ulbricht is working feverishly for what he considers East Germany's due reward. "We are strong," he cries. "The world...
...threat of an armed attack on socialist states cannot be excluded." Khrushchev hastily repeated his assurance that Russia means no harm in Berlin with its proposed East German peace treaty. "We do not intend to infringe upon any lawful interests of the Western powers," he said. "Barring of access, blockade of West Berlin is entirely out of the question...
Clear Intent. But what "lawful interests" of the West was Khrushchev ready to acknowledge? He has often asserted that the very presence in Berlin of U.S., British and French troops is illegal; East Germany's Red Puppet Walter Ulbricht, who would get control of Berlin's access routes after any peace treaty, has vowed to stop the exodus of refugees running out to West Germany and clamp down on the city's economy...
Near the Flash Point? For all his professed desire to parley, nothing Khrushchev said last week suggested a new basis for discussion of anything-except his own demands that East Germany be given total control over access to Berlin. Britain's slim and elegant Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, thought it necessary to caution his own people about being prematurely relieved by the prospects of talks: "It is really no good looking on the word negotiation as an incantation that can be repeated as if it might solve everything," he said. "So far, in all our contacts with the Russians...
...running out to the West. But they still keep coming. Last week People's Army patrols in camouflage uniforms stalked the spruce forests and potato fields in a twelve-mile circle around East Berlin in search of defectors; jackbooted People's Police and railway police combed all access roads, airports and railways leading to the city. But through them all the refugees poured across to the West at the rate of some 1,500 a day. West Berlin authorities estimate that an additional 1,000 daily are being turned back before they reach freedom...