Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, even before the Camp David decision, he had seen what was coming and, in high good humor, summoned newsmen to the Kremlin for his second press conference since taking power (see FOREIGN NEWS). He told how his six-month deadline for the West to meet his Berlin demands had not really been hard and fast, and he accepted-without being formally notified-the May 11 date for the foreign ministers' conference, probably in Geneva. But real results, he said, could only come at the summit: "Let's put in the heavyweights...
...Camp David the heavyweights of the U.S. and Britain were committed, and in the months to come their energies would be turned to working out the mechanics of the summit conference, and, far more important, their differences over such basic free-world policies as Berlin and the unification of Germany. The leaders of East and West had last met at the summit at Geneva in 1955. Hopes were high then for an end to the cold war-and because those hopes were shattered by Soviet obduracy and Khrushchev's hippodroming, the phony spirit of Geneva may have done more...
...chair while the group posed for photographs under an Eisenhower oil portrait of Winston Churchill. The visit to Dulles, planned to last only 30 minutes, stretched on for nearly an hour as the leaders of the U.S. and Britain got down to the crisis of Berlin and West Germany. Indomitable John Foster Dulles drove home a vital point: let's talk about East-West negotiations but not deals-and any negotiations must be two-sided, with the Soviets granting concrete concessions for every concession granted by the West...
Eisenhower went along to a degree with the view of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that Khrushchev is the man with whom to try to do business on easing world tensions and solving the Berlin crisis...
...Berlin crisis is a perfect illustration of this attitude. When Khrushchev suggested that Berlin be made a free city, the Western powers should have answered with "screams of delight." They should have said, "At last you Russians realize the value of international control, such as the West has been advocating all along. Of course, you want East Berlin included in the change." Such an approach would show a more aggressive and effective policy, not a mere "contentment with the very miserable status...