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...Cold War. Underlying the U.S.'s firmness was a conviction that, however tough he might talk, whatever steeliness he might display in brinkmanship, Nikita Khrushchev would not, at the showdown, risk global war. A war was on, but it was the old war of nerves...
Freshman Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia drew on George Washington, the Psalms and Pericles to back up Dodd: "I say that nothing can be politically right if it is morally wrong. If there must be a showdown, it should be in our time, and not in the time of our children...
...urged Macmillan to go to Moscow had done so on the basis of a fatally naive and condescending assumption. Sublimely convinced that no diplomats in the world are as smooth as British diplomats, Macmillan's advisers seriously thought that Khrushchev might somehow be persuaded, three months before a showdown date he himself had set, to take the urgency out of a crisis Khrushchev had deliberately provoked to try the free world's nerve...
...country's struggle for independence, he has fought against the Japanese all his life. At the height of the Korean war, Rhee said that if Tokyo sent troops, "we would turn around and fight the Japanese before the Communists." Last week the old warrior was challenged to a showdown by the country he still reckons as among the first of Korea's enemies...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12--The State Department declined comment today on a published report that the United States has developed a detailed plan for forcing a showdown with the East German Communists over access to Berlin next...