Word: dibrova
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Forthwith, Major General Charles Dasher, the U.S. commandant in Berlin, called on the Soviet commandant. Major General P. T. Dibrova, to protest the Volkspolizei's "lawless . . . ruffianism," and to say that of all the incidents in recent years, "I consider this the most serious." Dibrova replied that he could not accept the protest. Reason: East Germany is a sovereign state now; East Berlin is its capital, and no longer a Russian-occupied sector. Dibrova's statement was dutifully echoed by the East German official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland, which condemned the West for taking refuge behind "nonexistent four...
...Washington, the State Department preferred to take the line that Communist Commandant Dibrova's attitude had not yet been supported by higher Russian authority, and therefore did not constitute a formal abrogation of Soviet obligations. The State Department's attitude is that the Russians usually feel things out carefully in Berlin before doing something drastic: perhaps Conant's flying of the flag would cause them to think twice. Instead, at week's end the Russians applied the squeeze a little tighter. The East German regime refused to renew the annual permits under which West German barges...
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