Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HELEN BERLIN North Oaks, Minn...
Looking up from a week of made-in-Moscow headlines, the U.S., across lunch counters, through stern editorials and in Washington debate, stirred with a sober realization that the nation faces a possibility of war over Berlin. "The countdown has begun," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, as he called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned...
WASHINGTON, March 6--The four men who lead Congress met for 90 minutes with President Eisenhower today and promptly proclaimed bipartisan backing of his firm stand against Red threats to Berlin...
There exists a vast chasm between East and West, however, "on the great issues of European security, of Germany and of Berlin," he told a meeting of political supporters...
President Eisenhower Thursday asked Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to a White House conference Friday on the Berlin crisis and German problems generally...