Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, London, Paris and Bonn, Western diplomats worked painstakingly over the wording of separate but cautiously coordinated memorandums that will answer Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a German peace treaty by year's end. Weighing each word with infinite care, Washington labored long on its own answer. President Kennedy rejected the State Department's first draft; in lengthy sessions with his ranking experts-Military Adviser Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Berlin Task Force Chief Dean Acheson-he mulled over several more drafts, penciled in much of the language of the final version himself...
...NATO, the four memorandums will be delivered to Moscow this week. Differing only in nuance, they all tell the same story: the West is willing to negotiate on Germany as a whole-but the presence of U.S., British and French groups in West Berlin is simply not negotiable. Denying Khrushchev's claim that now is the time to sign a German peace treaty, the Western answers argue that no treaty is possible until the completion of negotiations on German reunification. To the chief Soviet threat-a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which would force Berlin-bound Allied convoys...
Special Area. Since they will offer neither new arguments nor new facts, the four memorandums represent only a tentative response to the latest and most worrisome of Soviet bullyboy operations. If Khrushchev persists in his determination to drag West Berlin behind the Iron Curtain, the ultimate answer, the U.S. has already hinted, could be nuclear war. Yet for the peace-minded free world, war would be a ruinous solution to a problem that could have been so easily resolved in September...
...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 its 11,000 troops, permit Berlin to become a "free city." (Moscow, of course, was to have a loud, obstructive voice in supervising the new neutrality.) But Ike warned that interference in Berlin could mean war, and Khrushchev said no more...
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...