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...ambitious West German diplomat more or less went into business for himself last week and created a major international flap over Berlin. Bonn's Ambassador to Moscow is stocky little Hans Anton Kroll, 63, a brusque, elbowy diplomat who is widely disliked in the diplomatic world for such incidents as calling the Japanese "half apes," or using embassy secretaries as waitresses at cocktail parties. More seriously, Kroll plugs German rapprochement with Russia. "We must take the détente bus before it leaves with out us," he insists. "We must establish good enough relations with Moscow so that...
Respect Wanted. At a Moscow reception two weeks ago, Kroll found himself alongside Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who casually suggested that some interim Berlin solution might be possible. Pressed to elaborate, Gromyko outlined a three-point plan in which West Berlin's freedom and its access to the West might be guaranteed in exchange for the West's agreement to "respect" East German sovereignty. Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk had gone over the same ground in their September talks in Washington and New York. But Kroll excitedly buttonholed Nikita Khrushchev on the subject...
Enthusiastically, Kroll brought up the points Gromyko had tossed out at the reception. What's more, he added, there should be more contacts between West Germany and East Germany. Above all, West Germany and the Soviet Union must come to a "grand reconciliation" to end the years of hostility...
...Kroll's cabled reports on the Moscow chat stunned Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Within ten days he would be in Washington for talks with President John F. Kennedy on the next steps in the Berlin crisis; U.S. Ambassador Thompson was awaiting the outcome before picking up his own discussions with the Russians. Sputtering with rage, Adenauer demanded Kroll's head...
...temporarily off is Nikita Khrushchev's apparent new willingness to diminish his menaces. At a Kremlin reception, Khrushchev told correspondents that "for the time being, it is not good for Russia and the U.S. to push one another." In a well-planted leak to West German Ambassador Hans Kroll last week, Khrushchev tentatively offered the West a set of modified proposals to end the crisis...