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Drift to Indecision. Unsure of his allies, Adenauer for once faced East-West affairs with irresolution. At Berlin, the Communists were edging in on the Western position by what Mayor Brandt now called "artichoke tactics"-taking a leaf at a time. In violation of four-power agreements but obviously with Soviet approval, East German Communists have applied one small pressure after another-not against Allied personnel, not even against West Berliners, but against West Germans. For two months now, they have been determining who could and who could not enter East Berlin; and by refusing to accept West German passports...
...Berlin there was gloom over the drift of events. Last week Mayor Brandt, who has always in the past opposed big-power conferences on Berlin because the West can only give something away, endorsed Macmillan's new summit call on the ground that a confrontation is needed before his city is nibbled to death. Now that Macmillan and Khrushchev have practically named the date, Berliners look for some sort of crisis soon after the inauguration of the next U.S. President...
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt had feared that the Communists were starting a new round of "salami" tactics against Berlin, and last week proved him right. Fortnight ago, Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's East German regime declared a five-day period during which passes would be required of West Germans entering the city's Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east...
...huffing did not really hurt. West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt announced that his government would pay the air fare of any West German prevented from traveling to Berlin by train or car. and in well-publicized defiance of the East German threats, allied planes proceeded to fly in delegates to the rallies. But at check points along the land routes, many an ordinary West German was turned back, and traffic piled up for miles as East German cops carefully checked the background of the occupants of each...
Watching the Tables. But despite the new Brandt brand on the Socialist Party, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats were sure to go into the election campaign running strong. Polls showed that 69% of West Germany's voters still considered Adenauer's performance as Chancellor "satisfactory," "good," or "very good," and the issue that in the past has cut most ice with West Germans politically-the Federal Republic's booming prosperity-was still in the Christian Democrats' favor. Moreover, the damaging and undignified rivalry between Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "the engineer of the German...