Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western diplomats directly concerned believed they held at least one strong hole card: Nikita Khrushchev's seemingly overriding desire for a summit meeting. Trading on this, the U.S. had already served indirect notice that any Russian move during the conference to shut off Western access routes to Berlin, or even to sign a separate World War II peace treaty with its Communist East German satellite, would result in an immediate Western walkout at Geneva and an end to all hope for a later summit conference...
...call a snap general election. They decided to hit the road themselves. Inonu's spirited welcome and the public resentment against his rough treatment suggest that the country may be fairly evenly divided at the moment. At week's end Inonu canceled a scheduled visit to Berlin. Said he: "I do not believe it would be wise to leave Turkey at a time when the country is in such an excited state...
...Berlin? The question agitates the free world, and last week an NBC news team headed by Commentator Chet Huntley addressed itself to the difficult task of supplying an answer. Their reply, presented in prime evening time (8 o'clock, E.S.T.), was television journalism at its best-the sights and sounds and sad, bitter memories of a divided city, caught by an accident of history far on the wrong side of the Communist border...
Skillfully edited film clips (all shot by NBCameramen) took the TV audience into the dangerous neighborhood of the East Berlin anti-Red riots of 1953, called back the high, droning traffic of the airlift of 1948-49. Then there were the refugees of today, a steady, hopeful stream, explaining their flight on their first afternoon of freedom. And there was Willy Brandt, the mayor, spelling out his startling theory that there may have been too many refugees, that Moscow might flood East Germany with Russians and Poles: this in .turn would make it harder than ever to achieve a free...
...prosperous citizens enjoying their coffee with whipped cream. But in the end it was a refugee, a single, haunted man, looking nervously over his shoulder as he scuttled down a long subway corridor toward freedom, who pointed up Huntley's point: "It seems to me wrong to trade [Berlin] off, whatever is at stake, while escape is possible for even...