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...brief allusion to the Berlin controversy, I merely pointed out the obvious fact that both sides have voiced hreats (not that they "must" do so). I certainly drew no policy implications for this situation from the example of Munich. Daniel Ellsberg...
...voters told the first returning Congressmen confirmed the poll. In Boston, Democratic Representative John McCormack reported invariable assent when he was asked, "What do you think about Berlin, John?" and replied: "It's vitally important for us to be firm-we can't forget the lesson of Munich...
...These British!" Despite Harold Macmillan's insistence-a correct one-that he had been one of the few British politicians to oppose the Munich deal with Hitler and was not advocating appeasement now, most of Britain's partners continued to cherish a surprisingly strong suspicion that Britain is "wobbly" over Berlin. There were shrugging Italian references to "perfidious Albion," and open questioning in France and Germany of Britain's staunchness. Charles de Gaulle flatly declared that disengagement would be disastrous unless it involved "a zone that is as near to the Urals as to the Atlantic. Otherwise...
Both Berlin and the Munich Conference of 1939, he stated, are prime examples of crises in which diplomatic negotation followed a theory of bargaining based on threats...
While pointing out that there are important differences between Berlin and Munich, Ellsberg reminded his audience that the final decision to abandon Czechoslovakia to the Nazis hinged on Hitler's determination to make good his threats to start World War II and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's reluctance to fulfill Allied treaties...