Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BERLIN, April 15--Communist East Germany dimmed hopes today for East-West agreement at next month's foreign ministers conference...
...Hercules took off from Evreux, France. When it flew across the West German border into the southern corridor at 25,000 ft., three Soviet jet fighters closed in, wheeled to within 10 ft. of the transport's wingtips, buzzed annoyingly until it entered the landing pattern of Berlin's Tempelhof airport. On the return trip, also at 25,000 ft., it was harassed by Russian fighters all the way through the corridor to the western borders of Communist-held East Germany...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff that the U.S. challenge Soviet claims to the right to limit flight altitudes in the corridors. The Chiefs weighed the idea, agreed that the U.S. ought to establish its right to fly the corridors at any altitude it deems necessary; in the event of another Berlin blockade, the Air Force will certainly use the huge C-130s for long-distance hauls, which would require higher altitudes than the short prop hauls made by piston-driven C-47s, C-119s and C-548. The Chiefs got President Eisenhower's approval, sent the order, waited...
...sort, too. The Pentagon plan was to establish the pattern with several flights above 10,000 ft. But Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hove into his Washington meeting with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter heatedly protesting that the flights might cause dangerous incidents in the touchy Berlin situation.* Although West Germany, France and Britain (but apparently not Lloyd) had been duly notified in advance of the 25,000-ft. flight, Herter promised to call off further flights until the two could sit down and talk the whole thing over...
Nonetheless, the U.S. had clearly challenged one arbitrary Soviet restriction on access to Berlin, had just as clearly won its point...