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...West resolutely girded for any Communist-made showdown on Berlin, East German Puppet Boss Walter Ulbricht showed signs of nervousness. He ordered the 100,000 men of East Germany's "People's Army" alerted to "maximum combat readiness" and gave them their first assignment: to use "all means" to try to stop the debilitating (and embarrassing) flow of refugees through Berlin to the West-an average of 1,000 per day last week. The Communists began to evict East Berliners who work in West Berlin from their homes, mounted a show trial of five East Germans charged with...
...Dienbienphu. Suddenly the defeated French needed peace?and desperately reached for an "independent" who could rally the demoralized Vietnamese and perhaps salvage something out of the shambles. Diem already had moved down to Paris from Bruges, took a hotel room and began dickering with Bao Dai, the young puppet Emperor who was lolling on the Riviera. Finally Premier Joseph Laniel's government authorized Bao Dai to meet Diem's basic demand: independence for Viet...
...could not even depend on a loyal army, since his French-trained military chief. General Nguyen Van Hinh, was personally hostile and forever plotting to take over the reins of government himself. A private gang, the notorious Binh Xuyen, actually operated the national police, having bought the "concession" from Puppet Emperor Bao Dai for $1,000,000. On top of all this, two powerful quasi-religious sects, the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao, controlled large parts of the countryside, opposing Diem's regime and enforcing their will with well-armed private armies of their...
...setting up a puppet East German government that is "no more than an extension of its own authority," the Soviet Union effectively contradicts the one principle that must underlie any peace treaty: German self-determination. "The United States Government continues to believe that there will be no real solution of the German problem . . . until the German people are reunified on the basis of the universally recognized principle of self-determination." But the Soviet Union, "by denying freedom of choice to 17 million East Germans" has not permitted "freedom or choice to the German people as a whole...
With the satisfying presence of some 20 Soviet divisions at his elbow, Ulbricht runs his puppet nation from an opulent, chandeliered office in Niederschonhausen Palace, onetime residence of the wife of Frederick the Great, in the Pankow section of Berlin. There he puffs black cigars and barks orders in a guttural Saxonian accent that is the butt of gibes among his unwilling subjects. At day's end he retires to a sumptuous fieldstone house in the residential enclave for Communist bigwigs near Liepnitz Lake, where he, his Communist wife Lotte and a 17-year-old daughter share the comforts...