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...first warm weather of spring, descending on Berlin at the Easter holidays, gave thousands of Berliners the urge to visit friends or go sightseeing in the opposite sector of their divided city. Trains between east and west operated at twice their usual capacity, and border traffic was unusually heavy. But not everyone was on a holiday jaunt. By last week 5,400 East Germans had taken advantage of the holiday crush to seek refuge in West Berlin. Defecting at the rate of 900 a day, they created the biggest mass rush to the West since the anti-Communist riots...
...labyrinthine politics of Soviet power, control of the police apparatus is vital. Khrushchev and his party cadres have apparently gained one more sector on the eve of this week's 20th Party Congress. But they still advance carefully. The Pravda announcement referred to Kruglov as "comrade," indicating that he was not, so far, an "enemy of the people." All five previous bosses of Russia's secret police either died at their jobs or were executed shortly after being removed...
...Jordan-held sector of the Holy City still lay in shock after riots in which at least 56 Arabs died protesting the ill-timed British proposal that their country join the new Baghdad pact for a Middle East anti-Communist front. The U.N.'s patient mediator, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, announced that both the Israelis and Egyptians are still blocking the latest plan for a border truce, and are both violating the armistice regularly. The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, making common cause of their enmity to the Baghdad pact, appointed Egypt...
...fever's center wais Pierre Mendes-France. Working feverishly to patch together in four weeks the coalition he had hoped to have six months to build, Mendes announced the formation of a "Republican Front" comprising his sector of the Radical Socialists, some ex-Gaullists, and the small U.D.S.R. But without the Socialists it would be a front without depth. The Communists, who captured one vote out of every four cast in 1951, were also wooing the Socialists with talk of a new front that could sweep them back into a position of major power...
...force the West to deal with satellite East Germany as a sovereign nation. Britain, France and the U.S. got off blunt protests to Soviet Ambassador Georgy Pushkin, announcing that they would continue to hold Russia responsible "for the welfare and proper treatment" of all their citizens in the Soviet sector of Berlin. U.S. Ambassador James B. Conant went further. He hurried to Berlin, defiantly drove through the heart of East Berlin with U.S. and ambassadorial flags flying. "We will remain in Berlin until Germany has been unified," announced Conant in a voice loud enough to be heard throughout Germany...