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...challenged one Russian attempt to restrict entry to Berlin by sending a C-130 transport in and out of Berlin well above the Russian-set limit of 10,000 ft., despite harassment by Communist fighters; days later came a Russian backdown...
...nation NATO Council, meeting in Washington, turned NATO's tenth anniversary into a resounding statement of support for a policy of no backdown on Berlin, no disengagement in Central Europe-"no surrender by stages," one NATO minister put it. "Not one handful of NATO earth has been lost," said NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad in Paris. "Keep...
...British aircraft carrier stood at the ready, and a supply fleet of 130,000 tons waited off Southampton to load equipment for the Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...Last-Minute Backdown. For a week the rock-throwing, torch-waving and teargassing went on, but the U.S. Army stood firm and did not lose its head. Finally, Syngman Rhee backed down and proclaimed that his government was opposed to the "civilian violence." Rhee demanded that the U.S. give a guarantee that the NNSC would soon be "peacefully evicted." An officer at the Wolmi barricade summed up the Army's reaction: "Even if I could hand over the Czechs and Poles to these people, I wouldn't do it. It's a matter of principle. We told...
...after the Geneva Conference started on April 26, Churchill made his flat announcement that Britain was "not prepared to give any undertakings" until after Geneva. This, in the view of U.S. diplomats, was a backdown on the agreement to "examine the possibility," and cut the ground from under the West at a critical moment. The British retorted that Churchill had tacitly pledged military action after Geneva-if the fighting continued or if the settlement was breached...