Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesman and diplomatic leader, Ike warned the Russians in the strongest terms he has yet used that if they start fooling around with the U.S.'s treaty rights of access to West Berlin, with any little incidents or so-called brush wars, they are only fooling themselves, for they are fooling around with...
Scraps of Paper. West Berlin, said Ike in his speech draft, is not just a city 4,000 miles away-seven hours by jet flight-but is the symbol of the free world. Khrushchev's talk-threat to renounce the Big Four agreements and impose a new blockade fitted Lenin's definition that "promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken." Free men have died before for so-called scraps of paper that represented duty, honor and freedom. Said Ike: "Let the Soviets remember...
...President: No nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terror of war simply by refusing to defend its rights and live up to its responsibilities. And the U.S. cannot hope to escape war by running away from it, has no intention of surrendering to the Communists at Berlin or any place else. That said, President Eisenhower offered to the Kremlin the prospect of "honest negotiations," any time and in any circumstances, if they had "hope of success...
...Compromiser. While Macmillan went from one airport to another, successfully ending doubts, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was doing his energetic best to sound like a man who was open to any reasonable compromise. At a Communist rally in East Berlin, Khrushchev casually announced: "We would not mind even if U.S., British, French and Soviet troops-or some neutral countries-maintained minimum forces in West Berlin." Scarcely had Khrushchev said it when Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt rejected the "offer" out of hand. It was, declared Brandt, no more than a scheme to get Soviet troops into West Berlin...
...Westerner-with whom the Soviet Union really had any quarrel was Bonn's steely old Chancellor Adenauer. Chief victim of this gambit was Erich Ollenhauer, colorless leader of West Germany's Social Democratic opposition, who incautiously accepted an invitation to go and talk with Khrushchev in East Berlin, so long as no Communist East Germans were present. (Socialist Mayor Brandt, cagier than his party boss, coldly refused a similar invitation.) Ollenhauer emerged from his two-hour talk with Nikita with the announced conviction that "all efforts are being made on the Soviet side to avoid a conflict...