Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4--U.S. officials see little or no chance for working out a Berlin agreement with the Soviet Union, in spite of the atmosphere of good will generated by the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks...
...relax tensions-and, in a way that was probably not on his agenda, he had. In three days of secret talks with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland (see The Presidency), he had given what the U.S. took to be a commitment to lift the ultimatum on West Berlin that he had invoked last November...
...Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites, was in an unusual position. His was the line that the U.S. was blocking world peace. Yet, in the strangely relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the guarded mountain retreat, Dwight Eisenhower, determinedly serious, was pinning him down to the specific issue of Berlin as the major threat to peace. Again and again the President refused to be led down the semantic path to a discussion of such generalities as disarmament and trade. Again and again he brought the conversation back to the Russian threat to Berlin, until, on the third day, he got Khrushchev...
...geniality, the two were joined in the toughest debate between Chiefs of State since the summits of World War II. Eisenhower, who did almost all the talking on the U.S. side, made it clear that the U.S. would negotiate on 1) reducing the size of Western garrisons in Berlin, 2.) cutting down propaganda and espionage activities, 3) setting up an all-German commission to work on long-range plans for German reunification. Khrushchev, who did all the talking on the U.S.S.R. side, said only that he would consider some form of U.N. guarantee for neutralized Berlin, and that only after...
Back at Camp David, the last round of talks got under way as soon as he got home. Again the President laid down to Khrushchev his basic requirement of good faith: Khrushchev must make it plain that Western rights to remain in West Berlin will not be impaired, and he must remove all threats. Khrushchev at last conceded. The details: 1) Eisenhower and Khrushchev would agree in a formal communique to reopen negotiations on the future of Berlin and Germany; 2) Eisenhower would say publicly this week that Khrushchev had withdrawn all cut-off dates and time limits on Western...