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...Potsdam, deep inside the Soviet zone southwest of Berlin. Three weeks ago East German police machine-gunned a mission staff car, narrowly missed killing the two Americans inside. Immediately, U.S. European Army Commander in Chief General Bruce C. Clarke demanded an apology from his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. When Konev's reply proved "unacceptable," Clarke hung a huge padlock on the gate of the Soviet mission in Frankfurt, posted a communications truck near the entrance to report every movement of the occupants. Soviet soldiers could leave if they wished, said Clarke, but they would be tailed every...
Last week, in West Berlin for a round of goodbyes prior to his retirement from active army service, Clarke suggested a farewell meeting to Konev. Over caviar and vodka, the pair talked in the Potsdam Soviet officers' club, then wound up their four-hour discussion in the U.S. villa. Out of the visit, to Clarke's surprise, came an apology from Konev for the shooting incident, along with a friendly leave-taking handshake. Next day, by mutual agreement, the U.S. and Soviet military missions were reopened and back in business again...
...Bobbing Beard. The danger was that the tense crowds on both sides of the barriers might merge and touch off the East German revolt that everyone feared. Already Moscow's famed Marshal Ivan Konev had moved two divisions of Russian troops into Berlin's outskirts, ready for the kind of action that the Soviets had 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...
...uprising. Should all these home-grown forces fail or defect, as was the case in Hungary, there remains the formidable Russian army in East Germany. 350,000 to 400,000 strong. Last week these forces got a new commander experienced in quelling popular uprisings: much-decorated Marshal Ivan S. Konev, who, as boss of all Warsaw Pact troops in 1956, had a hand in crushing the Hungarian freedom fighters...
...Blame. The jackals were soon at work. In the Central Committee itself, reported Pravda, many of Zhukov's oldest and closest military comrades-among them Marshals Timoshenko, Rokossovsky and Sokolovsky-"pointed out the serious shortcomings of Zhukov's work . . . unanimously condemned his wrong, unpartylike behavior." Marshal Ivan Konev suddenly discovered that Zhukov shared the blame with Stalin for Soviet reverses early in World War II, did not deserve much credit for the Stalingrad victory, had hindered more than helped at the conquest of Berlin. All in all, Konev concluded, "it would be absurd to affirm Zhukov...