Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Richard Nixon during the 1968 campaign, and next week he begins to carry out that pledge with an eight-day working trip to Western Europe. He has had no official contact with Western Europe since 1960, and no U.S. President has toured its capitals since 1963, when John Kennedy visited. The Continent Nixon will find is a very different place. In 1963, the Berlin Wall was still new; Charles de Gaulle had not yet challenged NATO; Konrad Adenauer still held sway in West Germany; the Viet Nam war had yet to poison the ambiance of European friendship for America...
...most of these factors have changed. Western Europe is more restive, more independent-although the fear of Russia, which had markedly declined in recent years, was somewhat revived by Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia. Last week the East Germans, backed by the Soviets, once more began harassing West Berlin. The provocation, they said, was Bonn's decision to have a new West German President selected in West Berlin on March 5 (see THE WORLD). By coincidence, Nixon's visit comes only a week before, though it was announced well after Berlin had begun to heat...
Among Four Eyes. Next stop is Bonn. The Germans will be delighted to see Nixon because of all the Western Europeans, they feel most dependent on U.S. military might. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger will meet the President at Wahn airport and take him by helicopter to his modernistic bungalow in the Palais Schaumburg park to begin their private talks unter vier Augen (among four eyes). From Bonn, Nixon will make the ritual visit to West Berlin, where John Kennedy made his historic "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech from the city hall steps in the spring of 1963. It will...
President's Signal. Faced with the Communist threat, the Western Allies firmly reminded the Soviet Union that they hold the Russians responsible for maintaining free access to West Berlin. After talks in Bonn with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson jetted to West Berlin for a seven-hour visit. "We shall continue -you can count on this-to do all that is in our power to ensure that your freedom is preserved," he said on television. Berliners were pleased and somewhat reassured. But they were even more pleased by the prospect of next week's visit...
...Western diplomats felt that it was highly unlikely that the Soviets would allow the East Germans to aggravate the Berlin situation into an American-Soviet dispute while Nixon was en route there. After all, the Soviets have so far been careful not to provoke the new President. They hope that he will work with them to forgo the building of an anti-ballistic missile system and to keep West Germany from getting nuclear weapons by pressuring Bonn into signing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Those Soviet goals would be imperiled by a new showdown in Berlin. As West German Foreign Minister...