Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of his family gathered, stayed close at hand: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, his sister, the State Department's Berlin expert; Allen Welsh Dulles, his brother, head of the Central Intelligence Agency; sons John, a mining engineer, and Avery, a Jesuit priest...
...pains of his fateful illness. Next day Walter Reed surgeons removed a malignant lesion from the lower intestine. Last February, after a sharp attack of diverticulitis, he flew to London, Paris, Bonn to consult with the West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely eat. "If it isn't cancer," he told a friend before leaving, "then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...
With a sense of urgency and an eye on Geneva and Berlin, the Pentagon moved rapidly last week to repair other links in its administrative chain...
...West Germans were conducting a "whispering campaign" against the British delegation. But with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that's the best you can offer, it's a poor way to start negotiations...
...answer was whenever one side or the other asked for secret sessions-an implied indication that it was ready to make concessions. But France's incisive Maurice Couve de Murville, strongly seconded by Herter, argued that since it was Russia that had instigated the conference by fomenting the Berlin crisis, it was up to the Russians to make the first move...