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...firearms and samovars), Khrushchev had opened the battle with what the British called "a shot across Macmillan's bow." He had no intention, said Khrushchev, of budging from his ultimatum to the Western powers to get out of Berlin by May 27. "Some excessively belligerent figures in the West," thundered Khrushchev, "say that should control over the access routes to West Berlin be turned over to the East Germans, they would fight their way through by force of arms. Only people who do not take account of the facts could reason this way. Soviet forces are stationed in East...
Marks & Muddles. If Russia had any genuine interest in a compromise settlement, the Western allies had opened up one line of approach. In their recent notes to Moscow, the U.S., Britain and France had all indicated their willingness to have "advisers" from both East and West Germany present at a Big-Four conference. This was clearly a concession to Russia's insistence that reunification of Germany must be negotiated directly between the West German government and East Germany's Communist bosses. And last week Eleanor Dulles, sister of John Foster and an official of the State Department...
Despite the unending stream of 300 refugees a day out of East Germany, the economic conditions in the busy East German colony have lately improved. Last week a West German economic study showed that 9 out of every 100 East German families now have cars, as compared with 14 per 100 in prosperous West Germany. Nonetheless, most Western observers believe that the risk of an uprising that could shake the whole Soviet bloc remains too great for Khrushchev to seriously consider relaxing the Russian hold on East Germany...
...miscalculation or muddle. That indeed would be a calamity to us all." In his restrained British way, Macmillan was seeking to make it unmistakably plain to Khrushchev that he was playing with dynamite; if Macmillan achieves nothing else, he is determined to convince the Soviet that the West will fight before it will surrender Berlin to a Russian-dominated East Germany...
Only a year before, when Syrians welcomed Nasser as the new Saladin and his merger as "a turning point in world events," it seemed to his followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...