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...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 to deal with the Volkspolizei of belligerent Puppet Chief of State Walter Ulbricht-the West will firmly answer that it will accept no curbs on the indisputable Allied right of free access to Berlin...
...seems. At midweek, three nervous exiles returned from Puerto Rico to test the government's much-ballyhooed "liberalization." It was their return that set off the demonstrations. To their amazement, Trujillo's heirs-the old man's son Ramfis and his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer-gave them complete freedom. At every speech and rally they were greeted by ever-larger crowds, who were obviously losing their fear of police reprisal. Said one demonstrator last week: "I was frightened, so I got drunk. I came here drunk this morning. But I'm not afraid...
Last week, appearing on Soviet television to report on Vienna, Khrushchev seemed even more deadly in his threats. "A peace settlement in Europe must be accomplished this year," he said. And after the U.S.S.R. signs its peace treaty with puppet East Germany, the East German government can cut off the supply corridors to West Berlin if it pleases. Any Western attempt to force passage to West Berlin "would mean war-and thermonuclear war at that...
...week. "It is in Germany that the Communists are seen to be losing in fair competition with a free society. Every year, a quarter of a million people leave East Germany, voting with their feet. So, apparently, the peace of the world is going to be endangered because this puppet regime cannot survive unless the Iron Curtain is clamped down still more vigorously...
Joaquin Balaguer, the puppet President whom Ramfis inherited from his father, went so far as to welcome the presence of a U.S. fleet cruising 60 miles off the Dominican coast. "It is just," he said. The U.S. "should be concerned that this vital area not become the theater of hatreds." Added Ramfis, who would very much like to resume diplomatic relations with the U.S., sell more sugar, and see more tourists: "I wish to emphasize that reports that I am anti-American are lies spread by reactionaries...