Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iraq is more important than ten Berlins, but the U.S. continues to study Berlin and act as if Khrushchev's "deadline" is something like a bureaucrat's lunch hour and must be taken seriously. Berlin is the deliberate decoy set up by the Communists to distract the U.S. from Iraq. Wait...
...been almost overwhelming. But when the Congressmen got home at Easter, they discovered to their general astonishment that there was little sentiment for wild pump-priming. That discovery shaped much of the course of the 85th Congress, second session-and what Congressmen find out about such issues as Berlin and the budget during the Easter recess that ends next week may well shape the course of the 86th Congress, first session...
...Berlin, there seems little doubt. Some citizens may not know too much about the details of the crisis (in a New York Times spot survey of 470 people across the U.S., 185, or 39%, did not even know that Berlin is surrounded by Communist East Germany), but there is clear agreement that the U.S. must stand fast against Russian threats. The U.S. is no more disposed to retreat from Berlin than it was during the 1948 airlift. At that time, the Gallup poll reported that 80% thought the U.S. should remain. Last week a Gallup poll showed an almost identical...
Light Luggage. Last week, in language that in casual reading sounded virtually identical, the U.S., Britain and France-the three NATO powers with conqueror's rights in Berlin-fired off carefully coordinated notes to Moscow. They proposed a Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Germany, to begin May 11 and be followed," as soon as developments warrant," by the summit conference on which Nikita Khrushchev had set his heart...
...Bonn to Washington, Britain's popular press had clamorously accorded him one diplomatic triumph after another (MAC DOES IT AGAIN), as if one intransigent ally after another had been converted to Macmillan's concept of what kind of deal the West might make with Russia over Berlin...