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John Kennedy is acutely aware that he, and he alone, sits where the decisions have to be made - and there are plenty yet to be made. Berlin remains a city of chronic crisis, and Kennedy faces choices far hard er than that of sending fresh troops down the Autobahn. He has yet to get down to making the final but necessary decision to go ahead with nuclear testing in the atmosphere. Other problems lie ahead in Southeast Asia, in Congress, in NATO, in the United Nations. With full realization of what he faces, and the experience of the year behind...
Turning Point. It was to demonstrate that determination in the only language that Communism can understand that Kennedy ordered an armored U.S. troop convoy to travel the Autobahn from West Germany through East German territory to West Berlin. The journey made for some dramatic headlines, but its real significance was somehow diluted by the flood of international crises. Kennedy well recognized that if the convoy were stopped, the shooting might start. "Talking to Kennedy was like talking to a statue," recalls a White House aide. "There was the feeling that this mission could very well escalate into shooting before morning...
...battle group was to be sent along the Autobahn in serials of 60 trucks each. General Bruce Clarke, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe, set up headquarters in the woods about one-half mile from Helmstedt. He was in near-instant communication with the White House. President Kennedy had postponed a weekend trip to Cape Cod; his military aide, Army Major General Ted Clifton, was ordered to remain on duty all night to report to the President in case of trouble. Kennedy himself stayed up until midnight, then turned in. When he arose at 8 a.m., he was told that...
...wish to do," continued Kennedy, "is to maintain a very limited-and they are very limited-number of troops of the three powers in West Berlin, and to have, for example, an international administration on the Autobahn so that goods and people can move freely in and out. But if East Germany is going to exercise the right of authority over that access, we are going to have continued tension there...
...point where the double rows of barbed wire run parallel to the West German Autobahn, the East Germans have built a huge billboard on their side of the line, on which is drawn a likeness of the great German writer and the slogan: "Anti-bolshevism is the underlying madness of the 20th century. - Thomas Mann...