Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bounced back the latest Soviet complaint that the West was trying to sabotage the coming East-West talks (by sending planes along the air corridors into Berlin above 10,000 feet, by rearming West Germany, etc.) with the stinging word "hypocritical...
...Ordered Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy to call in British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia, notify him that the U.S. was weary of continuing British complaints about the high-level flights-flown in the interests of the West-and intended to continue them...
Nevertheless, honks of protest went up all over West Germany. Not only is Knechtsand a wild goose sanctuary near the fishing and resort town of Cuxhaven; it is also regularly visited by a game warden and a band of volunteer bird lovers, aged 10 to 68, who are helping build up the dunes to save the sandbar from the gnawing surf. Had they been on Knechtsand that day, they might have been killed or wounded...
...R.A.F., which used the sandbar as a bombing range after World War II. A British official assured the government of Lower Saxony that none of its planes based in Germany had been responsible. The following day London said that no R.A.F. planes based anywhere had made the bombing run. West Germany's air force insisted it had nothing to do with the incident. So did the U.S. Air Force in Europe. So did Norway, France, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands...
...planes come from behind the Iron Curtain? The West German Defense Ministry did not know. Then what of the extensive and expensive radar net set up by West Germany and its NATO allies to prevent just such incursions? A Defense spokesman replied embarrassedly that there had been no reports of planes appearing on any radar screen, and added bleakly: "We have no idea what aircraft bombed Knechtsand. The investigation is continuing...