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...Provision. The U.S. plan was apparently the basic plan that would be put up to the Kremlin at the May 11 conference. Its outline, subject to some reshaping at another Big Four meeting in Paris at month's end: 1) the West would offer such "military concessions" as beginnings of disarmament in small zones of Germany, provided-a big provision-that the Russians accept inspection and work toward a general disarmament-with-inspection plan. This would be offered in return for 2) such "political concessions" as Kremlin agreement to make a start on German reunification. Both sides would encourage...
Just to be sure that the Russians know that NATO is braced for whatever crises they want to create in the next ten years, the NATO Council closed its three-day session with a brief communiqué noting its "unanimous determination to maintain the freedom of the people of West Berlin, and the rights and obligations of the Allied powers...
Moments later, the Hercules took off from Evreux, France. When it flew across the West German border into the southern corridor at 25,000 ft., three Soviet jet fighters closed in, wheeled to within 10 ft. of the transport's wingtips, buzzed annoyingly until it entered the landing pattern of Berlin's Tempelhof airport. On the return trip, also at 25,000 ft., it was harassed by Russian fighters all the way through the corridor to the western borders of Communist-held East Germany...
...Pentagon plan was to establish the pattern with several flights above 10,000 ft. But Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hove into his Washington meeting with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter heatedly protesting that the flights might cause dangerous incidents in the touchy Berlin situation.* Although West Germany, France and Britain (but apparently not Lloyd) had been duly notified in advance of the 25,000-ft. flight, Herter promised to call off further flights until the two could sit down and talk the whole thing over...
...London's Daily Mirror was a good deal less diplomatic in its anger over the Hercules flight and the U.S. military in general. "A new menace!" it cried. "The loudmouthed American generals . . . The peoples of the West-and of Russia and her satellites-are expected to believe that General Lauris Norstad (American general), General Nathan Twining (American general), General Thomas D. White (American general) are the only men who matter." A speech by NATO Commander Norstad opposing a thin-out of Western forces in Europe was called "a threat to the hopes of world peace." The comments before congressional...