Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Fechter's unattended death at the Berlin Wall [Aug. 31] should not be held to the account of the American troops there...
Gliickwünsche for writing such an excellent account of the Wall of Shame. Having visited Berlin during the past month, I can now wholeheartedly agree that the barrier is "unnatural and inhuman." To see the clean, modern and progressive city of West Berlin and, in contrast, the poverty of the Eastern half makes one realize that the benefits of Communism...
...Berlin Wall was conceived from fear and forged out of hate. A monument to slavery and suppression, the ominous wall divides a great city. The Berliners call out for the destruction of this senseless structure. But Robert Frost, in his "Mending Wall," has said it best...
...Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense...
However much he may cooperate with President Kennedy when in Washington, when he gets back home he leaves no doubt about whose side he is on. The President, he charges, is "taking the country downhill," has failed in five areas: peace ("There was no Wall under President Eisenhower"), prestige ("an alltime low"), progress ("progress all right-but in the wrong direction"), party support ("On the satellite bill, nobody from the President's own party would stand up and defend him"), and purpose ("Democrats are hungry for power to fasten more control on farmers and businessmen...