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...family reunion time for the Dwight D. Eisenhowers. While Ike and his three brothers got away from it all at a lodge near Watersmeet in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (reported the ex-President: "Fishing has been very fine and my golf very bad"), Mamie and her sister, Mrs. G. Gordon Moore, sadly met at the East Denver home where they grew up and where their mother died last September. While pondering the sale of the house, the sisters packed off many of its furnishings to Goodwill Industries, only to hastily retrieve a couple of items (including their mother...
...traded war stories with Secretary of State Dean Rusk-an old Burma hand-and was chided by protocol officers for forgetting to toast the health of the U.S. President. Having survived all the festivities, Ayub flew off for a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan and a visit to Ike's Gettysburg, Pa. farm. Still ahead of him were more gastronomical trials: a U.N. dinner and a barbecue at the Texas ranch of Vice President Johnson...
...doubt Soviet promises-the Allies failed to insist on written guarantees for access to the city through the surrounding Russian zone. By March 1945, the Allied armies under General Eisenhower were near enough to Berlin to seize the city for the West, and Winston Churchill, suspecting future trouble, urged Ike to take the devastated capital. But the Supreme Allied Commander refused. "May I point out that Berlin itself is no longer a particularly important objective," he wrote. And he left Berlin to the Russian divisions advancing from the East, while his own troops scattered across the north German lowlands...
Militarily, Ike's decision was perfectly reasonable; he could hardly be blamed for failing to foresee the political consequences that would plague him later when he became President. The Russians, violating their pledge to help reunify Germany and hold democratic elections, made trouble in Berlin from the start, finally brought all road, barge and rail traffic to a halt in the summer of 1948. A remarkable, eleven-month Allied airlift broke the blockade-but strengthened Soviet determination to swallow Berlin, which had become a "bone in the Soviet throat." In 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the West remove...
Siren Talk. When Khrushchev reopened the Berlin issue five weeks ago, at Vienna, some observers cried "old stuff." But there was one big difference: a truculent tone that said: "This time something's got to be done." So far, John Kennedy has been as firm as Ike in turning thumbs down on the Soviet demands. But a few less-thoughtful U.S. spokesmen have seemed receptive to the siren talk of "negotiation...