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...Line. Hurriedly, U.S., British and French troop commanders met, decided on a tough reply. "The three Western commandants take a most serious view of [this] effrontery [and] are taking the necessary action to ensure security and the integrity of the sector borders," they announced. Within hours, a thousand heavily armed Allied troops (600 Americans, 200 British, 200 French) were taking positions all along the 25-mile East-West city frontier. Where the Wilhelmstrasse enters Communist territory, a hard-bitten U.S. sergeant and his crew raced up in a Jeep armed with a 106-mm. recoilless rifle and parked with...
...angry belligerence at the Brandenburg Gate had the incidental effect of propelling Candidate Brandt into the limelight and Candidate Adenauer into the wings. As custodian of the embattled city, Willy Brandt was smack in front of the TV cameras when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. troop reinforcements arrived to bolster West Berliners' morale...
France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who skillfully articulates what Charles de Gaulle allows him to say, argued that the West could bargain more firmly after the projected NATO troop buildup was complete, and that it was unseemly to be hasty. There were those present who thought the French had another motive. Prolonging the Berlin crisis a few extra weeks is one way to keep some nationalist responsibility alive in the French Army, which is nearly out of hand over Algeria and Tunisia. Courteously, Rusk bowed for now to his allies' insistent demands...
...second-rate men who took him for a leader. To Booth, the cause of the South was the cause of gentlemen, and above all the little actor wanted to be recognized as a gentleman-to the very end, when he offered to fight it out with the troop of cavalrymen who surrounded him in a Virginia tobacco barn...
...Standby Reserve (and later to the Retired Reserve), from which they cannot be called back to duty unless there has been a congressional declaration of war or a presidential proclamation of national emergency. Some Guard divisions may be absorbed by the Air Force; Air Guardsmen in tactical and troop carrier squadrons face almost certain chance of being quickly mobilized...