Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians do not want a major war at this time, but there is always the possibility that a series of steps (a Russian action, a U.S. counteraction, etc.) could lead even to all-out war. Although the West would not begin a conflict, it must still be prepared to make quick decisions on the use of nuclear weapons. But such decisions have to be made on a day-to-day basis, and concern about such momentous problems sometimes makes it hard for a President to sleep well at night. Even so, the crisis so far is no worse than...
...effort to mend things came after a flood of vengeful rumors (e.g., that he was trying to steal the presidential nomination) and a new outbreak of demands that he be fired. Pennsylvania's powerful Governor Dave Lawrence rebuked Butler for washing party linen in public, and West Coast Democrats were still shooting angry sparks because Butler had deleted praise for congressional Democratic leadership from a letter that California's Governor Pat Brown had sent in accepting membership on the liberal-hued Democratic Advisory Council...
Breaking away from Geneva's torpid air, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter flew to West Berlin last week to reassure 2,200,000 West Berliners that the U.S. had not forgotten its "binding commitment" to save them from Communist slavery. Said Herter: "I know that the people of West Berlin regard our troops and those of France and the United Kingdom as defenders of their freedom. I know, too, that the presence of these troops-which will be preserved-is indispensable to that freedom...
...assurance was welcome to Berliners, and so was Herter. He returned to Geneva refreshed by his enthusiastic reception. The only dismaying thing about the trip was the need for it. As things were going at Geneva, a little reassurance all around was necessary. The West was being firm about defending Berlin "rights" but flexible about discussing Berlin "arrangements"; Herter worried that West Berlin morale might some day be affected by misunderstanding of such fine diplomatic distinctions...
...said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness." And so Gromyko did. In the eighth week of "negotiations" at Geneva, with the mechanical insistence of a recorded time signal, he reiterated demands that the West could not agree to without, in effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless...