Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crisis Change. Then, last week, there was a different tone, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin blockbuster. East Germany's angry belligerence at the Brandenburg Gate had the incidental effect of propelling Candidate Brandt into the limelight and Candidate Adenauer into the wings. As custodian of the embattled city, Willy Brandt was smack in front of the TV cameras when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. troop reinforcements arrived to bolster West Berliners' morale...
...halves of the city, could not see their relatives. Fifty thousand East Berliners who regularly commuted to West Berlin were now cut off from their jobs by official decree. At the city's two biggest squares where East once met West, bustling Potsdamer Platz and the soaring sandstone Brandenburg Gate, thousands of East and West Berliners gathered to gape and to jeer at the scowling Communist troops gripping submachine guns and standing shoulder to shoulder beside a solid phalanx of armored cars. When the crowd moved too close, there was the jab of a Communist bayonet or a sudden...
...employed to put down the abortive 1953 East German revolt. But the West Berliners were not intimidated. "Berlin bleibt frei, Berlin bleibt frei" (Berlin will remain free), chanted a crowd of 30,000 gathered a stone's throw from the Vopos on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate. Near by, an East German cop who got too close to a West Berlin throng was grabbed, hauled over the line and savagely beaten. Realizing that things were nearing flash point, West Berlin police slowly forced their own people a half-mile away from the sector border. As they backed...
...least of the gains from the emergence of a united Europe would be an incalculable strengthening of the Western alliance. Said British Labor M.P. Desmond Donnelly, summing up the significance of entry into the Common Market: "Britain's frontier will be not at Dover, but at the Brandenburg Gate...
...ready, willing and able to face up to the danger that threatens at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. But in the mind of John Kennedy, the nation is less prepared for the crises that lurk half-hidden in Africa, South America and Asia. This week John Kennedy would go before Congress and the nation (in a televised speech from the White House) to announce the first stages of the U.S. response to the latest Soviet threats. The emergency measures, while geared to the specific danger of a Berlin conflict, are the start of a long-range, permanent toughening of national...