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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...
Then after a study of student conditions in East Berlin, later published, Sigmund flew via Athens to Ceylon for an international student conference with Algeria the first order of business. "We finally recognized the Algerian student organization, though not until the French walked out. Still the French were rather used to walking out, and not just from student meetings...
Sigmund returned to Europe from Ceylon, with steps in the trigger-happy Near East ("It was Suez time"). The Air Force then extended an invitation ("I had a ROTC commission from college"), and he spend a year and a half ("Just long enough to learn to ski") with Air Force Intelligence in Germany and France...
Macmillan hopes, on a flying trip to Washington next week, to win President Eisenhower's endorsement of the plan for East-West negotiations on German and other European problems...
...President's handling of the Berlin trouble, Herbert J. Spiro '50, assistant professor of Government, said "I wouldn't panic over the Krushchev ultimatum, if you can call it that." He asserted that the Soviet Premier's suggestion to let the United Nations play a role in the East-West conflict was worth consideration by the United States. According to Spiro, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's trip to Moscow helped relations...