Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was about 2 1/2 hours after the scheduled opening of their momentous negotiations on Berlin, the future of Germany, and European security. The formal meeting lasted an hour...
...serious negotiations with the Russians. But he also made a significant concession to the French. He had wanted to make public the Western proposal May 10, the day before the meeting with the Russians began. But the French argued that since the Russians started all the fuss by threatening Berlin, they should be required to submit a plan first. Herter agreed...
What if the Russians reject the West's package? The British, believing that something will still have to be done about Berlin, suggested that the U.N. might be called in. In a speech to Copenhagen students last week, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold carefully warned that "practical considerations alone" would prevent the U.N. from taking upon itself "administrative tasks which require political decisions." The U.S. is willing to add some sort of U.N. presence in Berlin, but nothing that weakens the West's right to have its own troops there...
...luxury is now being tried experimentally in the U.S. with startling success. In Los Angeles, Painter June Wayne, 41, took a flyer by publishing the poems of 17th century Poet John Donne, illustrated by 14 of her own lithographs. The lithographs were pulled in Paris, the text printed in Berlin. At $225 a copy, Lithographer Wayne's edition of 110 seems likely to be a sellout by year...
...Berlin? (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Chet Huntley as narrator of a film about the beleaguered city's postwar history...