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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Acheson, who as Under Secretary (1945-47) and Secretary of State (1949-53) helped fashion the NATO defense system and recommended sending troops into Korea, wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that Berlin may test the West's will more than Korea did. He ridiculed the notion that Khrushchev will "be put off by talk." He rejected a new Berlin airlift as nothing more than "another formula for putting off the evil day" when the Russians either take over or are engaged "where the problem must be faced," on the ground...
Getting in the victims as well as the victors to write the German peace had a plausible sound, but it was also part of the Russian tactics to contest the West's legal right to be in Berlin, as conquerors, until a peace treaty is concluded. Khrushchev was also aiming to pack the meeting. The British were inclined to give way on admission of the Czechs and Poles to the conference table...
...unruffled stand. The British have always insisted that they are good at this kind of talking, and Macmillan, fighting flu internally and Nikita's slings from without, went through his ordeal with unflagging style. In private he firmly conveyed to the Soviet leader the danger of misunderstanding the West's determination to remain in Berlin. In public he answered Khrushchev's call for a non-aggression pact by proposing that "our disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force." In the final communiqué his aides put in a few words, which the Russians...
After his hug-slug-hug scrimmage in Moscow with Macmillan, Khrushchev turned up last week at the East German industrial capital of Leipzig to proclaim that what he wants is "peace, peace and more peace"-that it is "hotheads in the West" who threaten war by refusing to quit Berlin and sign a peace treaty with his puppet East German regime...
Having wigwagged one relaxing message to the West, the Soviet boss felt called upon to resume his menace. He rose to make an impromptu speech. "Elbow us and we will break your elbow," he growled. "The Western countries who want to maintain the state of war do not want to secure peace. If you want to frighten us, all right, we are frightened. But do not go on frightening...