Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev has superlative cause for worrying about the continued existence of West Berlin: it stands as a showcase outpost of freedom-a glowing symbol, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain, of successful allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying...
Four weeks ago when Nikita Khrushchev stirred up the Berlin crisis, world attention focused on whether the vital but vulnerable Western outpost could and would hold out. The answer was yes. But by this week it was clearer than ever that the prime intent of Khrushchev's maneuvers is to reopen the far more complex problem of divided Germany and its future...
...Russians once more to reunification of Germany by free elections, with free choice whether or not to join NATO; 2) insisting that they keep their pledged word on the World War II agreements, which set up Berlin under four-power auspices and turned the city into a striking outpost of prosperity, hope and defiance only because the Communists wrapped their drab, unsmiling empire around...
Iran remains a precarious outpost. The bloody July revolution in neighboring Iraq sent an apprehensive shudder through Iran's top thousand families and made them more receptive to the Shah's reforms. Though Iran is a Moslem nation, its people are not Arab, and the Shah is thus insulated from the Nasser virus. The Soviet Union, through pudgy Ambassador Nikolai Pegov, has lately purred friendship and slyly supported Iran's claim to Britain's oil-rich Bahrein Island. The Soviet Union sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control...
...themselves; they dare not risk a free vote. In a decade, 3,000,000 of East Germany's subjects have fled into West Berlin, including in recent months the cream of its technical and professional ranks most needed to carry out Communist plans. Berlin may be an inconvenient outpost for the West to supply, but for the East it is an embarrassing magnet. As a pledge of the West's determination to stay there, Eleanor Dulles, special assistant to the State Department's Office of German Affairs and sister of the Secretary of State, last week described...