Word: accessions
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Garrison State? At his press conference, the President keyed the week to the U.S.'s determination to defend its rights of free access across Communist East Germany to West Berlin-"We could not abandon them; we never would abandon them." Asked about the possibility of "troop withdrawals or disengagement in Central Europe," he ducked a direct answer but stressed that any agreement with the U.S.S.R. in Europe must rest upon "some self-enforcing element . . . so that we can have confidence...
Whether or not there was a summit, Khrushchev plainly intended-for last week, at least-to go ahead with his plans to turn control of the access routes into West Berlin over to the East German Communists. If the West would not agree to a Russian-drafted World War II peace treaty with both East and West Germany, Khrushchev would sign a separate treaty with the East Germans-after negotiating terms during his visit to the Leipzig trade fair this week. At that point "the [postwar] agreement on the division of Berlin into two sectors and hence on its occupation...
This decision set up a cultural clamor. Feelings were heightened by the action of the divorced wife of Painter Andre Derain, who, suing for her share of the "community of goods," had sequestered Derain's studio and denied him access to a painting he was still working on. As sometimes happens in France, popular feeling outweighed the rigidities of law. Last week a court of appeal in Orleans reversed the decision of the Court of Cassation, handed down a final verdict awarding Bonnard's property to his own heirs...
...have become convinced," said the Oregonian, "that certain persons have had access to advance information regarding answers to some of the puzzles." The Journal's apology, which ran under a six-column head, offered more details: "Our investigations have shown beyond any doubt that at least one of our winning contestants was able to win $2,600 in prize money because of information supplied, through several Portland intermediaries, from persons operating in Detroit...
Once the Greeks and the Turks reached their offstage agreement in a Swiss hotel (TIME, Feb. 23), the other parties to the dispute found little room for maneuver. The British demanded-and got-sovereignty and access rights to their military bases on the island as the jump-off point for British operations in the Middle East. But by the terms of the settlement the British were forced to give up another shred of empire without much say about how it was done...