Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States and Russia are fighting a diplomatic war over Berlin in which either side must attempt to threaten the other into a corner without actually committing itself to armed conflict...
...Both Berlin and the Munich Conference of 1939, he stated, are prime examples of crises in which diplomatic negotation followed a theory of bargaining based on threats...
While pointing out that there are important differences between Berlin and Munich, Ellsberg reminded his audience that the final decision to abandon Czechoslovakia to the Nazis hinged on Hitler's determination to make good his threats to start World War II and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's reluctance to fulfill Allied treaties...
Bargaining Counters. Khrushchev apparently still thought he had the West in a compromising position, and would be able, by continuing to menace Berlin, to compel the West to give some kind of recognition to his Communist East German regime. This in effect would force the restive East Germans to become as resigned to their fate as the Hungarians. Against these maneuverings by Khrushchev, there were three possible Western responses. One was the press-conference warning from President Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that anyone who stirs up military trouble in so crucial a place as Berlin is risking no mere skirmish...
...usual, officialdom in Washington and London protested De Gaulle's timing most of all: in the middle of the Berlin crisis, it was essential, they said, to convince Russia of Western unity. But this was not an argument calculated to sway a man who had never hesitated in World War II to put pressure on Britain and the U.S. at precisely the time when it would have maximum effect...