Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garrison State? At his press conference, the President keyed the week to the U.S.'s determination to defend its rights of free access across Communist East Germany to West Berlin-"We could not abandon them; we never would abandon them." Asked about the possibility of "troop withdrawals or disengagement in Central Europe," he ducked a direct answer but stressed that any agreement with the U.S.S.R. in Europe must rest upon "some self-enforcing element . . . so that we can have confidence...
...National Security Council meeting next day the President and his advisers settled the key elements of crisis policy. Military element: the U.S. would try to run ground convoys to West Berlin even if it meant challenging Communist roadblocks with armored column escort. Diplomatic element: the U.S. was ready for Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva (probable date: May 11), after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles...
While Democratic leaders of Congress formed solid ranks behind President Eisenhower's leadership in the Berlin crisis, other key Democrats tramped off in assorted directions. Among them...
Adlai E. Stevenson told a Boston Democratic fund-raising dinner ($25 a plate) that the President "speaks for all of us" in refusing to be forced out of Berlin. But calling upon his party "to make good the perilous deficiencies of the executive branch," Stevenson suggested that the West can afford to negotiate toward disengagement in Central Europe. "We must face the fact that no Russian withdrawal can be secured without a modification of the Western position," he said. "In order to take, we will have to give...
Dean Acheson, who as Under Secretary (1945-47) and Secretary of State (1949-53) helped fashion the NATO defense system and recommended sending troops into Korea, wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that Berlin may test the West's will more than Korea did. He ridiculed the notion that Khrushchev will "be put off by talk." He rejected a new Berlin airlift as nothing more than "another formula for putting off the evil day" when the Russians either take over or are engaged "where the problem must be faced," on the ground...