Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German reunification, a position that John Foster Dulles seemed to modify in a press conference when he said that there were other ways of arriving at reunification. Macmillan view: since Khrushchev will never agree to "immediate free elections," there is no sense in talking about them in connection with Berlin, as the U.S. insists. British spokesmen last week said that Macmillan had persuaded West Germany's Konrad Adenauer that reunification should be dropped down on the list of Western priorities. Tentative outcome of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks: the U.S. may not insist on "immediate free elections," even while requiring...
Control of Berlin. Longstanding U.S. view: the West has unimpeachable legal rights and moral responsibilities in West Berlin, which stands as an oasis of freedom in the desert of Communism. Macmillan view: some kind of undefined "internationalization," e.g., a bringing in of control representatives from neutral nations or a U.N. commission, may be possible. The U.S. still argues that any change in the status of West Berlin must be accompanied, at the minimum, by a similar change for East Berlin...
Recognition of East Germany. Strongly held U.S. view: no diplomatic recognition; the British do not object to giving East Germany control of the access corridors to Berlin so long as the Russians join in guaranteeing the right of access...
Armament. Longstanding Allied view: an armed Germany must be the spearhead of NATO forces with U.S.-controlled nuclear weapons. Macmillan view: the West, in pursuit of a Berlin settlement, can afford to discuss 1) a "freeze" of force levels on both sides, with inspection on both sides, and 2) perhaps later a "thinning-out" of both East and West forces in certain unspecified areas. The British say that they would not agree to anything that would tend to increase the Communist balance of military power, believe the East Germans should sign the agreement, say they are not advocating a prohibition...
While Western leaders from Camp David to Bad Godesberg sought ways to cope with his threats to Berlin, Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation...