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...week's most visible action on Berlin was a blunt and forceful U.S. memorandum, seconded by Britain and France, that answered the June 4 Soviet note demanding a German peace treaty by year...
...make good and if, heaven forbid, we go under Communism, then we shall still press against you-but not as friends." The "affluent" U.S., said Ayub, really has no choice: "You have to give it to us because so much is involved." It was plain talk-a blunt attempt to intervene in what is essentially a private U.S. argument-but it was delivered in cultured British accents, interlaced with humor, and astonished Congressmen broke into long applause...
...Pakistan had demonstrated his old soldier's scorn for diplomatic niceties, had loudly broadcast his doubts about U.S. policy in Southeast Asia and threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take deepest interest," he told President Kennedy, "in what goes on in this country-and especially what you do, sir." Then he strode to Kennedy's new bubble-topped Lincoln and plunged into a giddy, four-day whirl unrivaled in recent capital history...
...Craft Unionist (his trade is plumbing) George Meany, who nonetheless still seems likely to win any fight for the presidency at next December's A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention. But amid all the wrangling at Unity House, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. did achieve one demon stration of Solidarity Forever. In a blunt paper on "The International Crisis," the council supported President Kennedy's no-surrender statements on Berlin, and rejected Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's suggestion to merge East and West Berlin into one free city. "The only way in which the Allied rights and access to West Berlin...
President Charles de Gaulle was amiable and casual as he moved among his guests gathered on the lovely lawns of the Elysee Palace for his annual garden reception. But his words were calculated and blunt...