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Berlin 1961 Frederick Kempe 64710K 2022-07-22

During his election campaign: Prittie, Konrad Adenauer, 283.

Kennedy had been born: Frank A. Mayer, Adenauer and Kennedy: A Study in German-American Relations, 1969a”1963. New York: St. Martinas Press, 1996.

Eisenhoweras National Security Council: DDEL, White House Office, Office of the Special a.s.sistant for National Security Affairs (OSANSA), Records, 1952a”1961, NSC, Policy Papers Subseries, Box 23, Folder NSC 5803, aU.S. Policy Toward Germany (1),a Operations Coordinating Board, Report on Germany (The Federal Republic, Berlin, East Germany: NSC 5803), November 2, 1960, printed in FRUS, 1958a”1960, vol. IX, Berlin Crisis, 1959a”1960, p. 697; Adrian W. Schertz, Die Deutschlandpolitik Kennedys und Johnsons: Unterschiedliche Anstze innerhalb der amerikanischen Regierung. Cologne: Bhlau, 1992, 47.

U.S. amba.s.sador to Bonn: DNSA, The German Scene at the Turn of the Year. Confidential, Dispatch, 1122, February 8, 1961, Berlin Crisis, Item Number: BC01991.

With Franceas de Gaulle: Eckart Conze, Die gaullistische Herausforderung: Die Deutsch-Franzsischen Beziehungen in der Amerikanischen Europapolitik 1958a”1963. Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1995, 91a”94.

Kennedyas election had fed: Khler, Adenauer, 1094.

Adenauer was painfully aware: Walter Sttzle, Kennedy und Adenauer in der Berlin-Krise 1969a”1962. Bonn and Bad G.o.desberg: Neue Gesellschaft, 1973, 19a”20; Mayer, Adenauer and Kennedy, 7; John Fitzgerald Kennedy, A Compilation of Statements and Speeches Made During His Service in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964, 979a”980.

Schumacher, who had lost: Schwarz, Konrad Adenauer, vol. 1, 596a”603.

Acheson had considered Schumacher: Acheson, Sketches, 171.

Even after his death: Die Zeit, 12/15/1955.

aWent to bed earlya: JFKL, JFK Personal Papers, Diary of European Trip, ms., Box 1; Herbert S. Parmet, Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy. New York: The Dial Press, 1983, 51.

aWe should be readya: John F. Kennedy and Allan Nevins, The Strategy of Peace. New York: Harper & Row, 1960, 7, 11, 12, 30; Mayer, Adenauer and Kennedy, 8, citing his interview with McGeorge Bundy, August 25, 1988, on achancelloras veto.a Nothing in Adenaueras life: Rolf-Dietrich Keil, Mit Adenauer in Moskaua”Erinnerungen eines Dolmetschers. Bonn: Bouvier, 1997, 79, 95, 97.

Adenauer had been shaken: Anneliese Poppinga, Meine Erinnerungen an Konrad Adenauer. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1970, 166.

Khrushchev got the better: Henry Ashby Turner, The Two Germanies Since 1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987, 87.

aThe freedom of 10,000a: Guido Knopp, Die Gefangenen. Munich: Goldmann, 2005, 370.

Having never forgotten: Mayer, Adenauer and Kennedy, 8, quoting Georg M. Schild, aJohn F. Kennedy and Berlin,a Paper Presented at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, June 17a”20, 1993; Kennedy and Nevins, The Strategy of Peace, 212a”213.

Adenauer even sent Nixon: Khler, Adenauer, 1093; Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus, III, 6.

The morning began: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 01/05/1961.

The official explanation: Williams, Adenauer, 340.

Born Herbert Frahm: Williams, Adenauer, 488.

The SPDas s.h.i.+ft: Schwarz, Konrad Adenauer, vol. 1, 524; Bonner Rundschau, 01/06/1961; SPD Press Service, January 4, 1960, P/XV/2.

Still, Adenauer did not trust: Williams, Adenauer, 488; Schwarz, Konrad Adenauer, vol. 1, 487.

aWhoever wants to bea: Khler, Adenauer, 1090; Archiv fr Christlich-Demokratische Politik, VIII-001-1503/3; w.i.l.l.y Brandt, Begegnungen und Einsichten. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1976, 49.

He was convinced Khrushchev: Schwarz, Konrad Adenauer, vol. 1, 645.

Waving his hand, Adenauer: Poppinga, Meine Erinnerungen an Adenauer, 41a”42, 51.

Friedrich Brandt was hiding: Erika Von Hornstein, Flchtlingsgeschichten: 43 Berichte aus den frhen Jahren der DDR. Nrdlingen, Germany: F. Greno, 1985.

6. ULBRICHT AND ADENAUER: THE TAIL WAGS THE BEAR.

aWe are a statea: SAPMO-BArch, ZPA, J IV 2/202/129, 1a”2. Letter from Ulbricht to Khrushchev, January 18, 1961; SED Archives, IfGA, ZPA, J IV, 2/202/129.

aThe probe whicha: SED Archives, IfGA, ZPA, J IV, 2/202/129, Letter from Khrushchev to Ulbricht, January 30, 1961, in Harrison, aUlbricht and the Concrete aRose,aa CWIHP Working Paper No. 5, Appendix C.

aSince Comrade Khrushchevas statementa: SAPMO-BArch, ZPA, J IV 2/202/129, 9-2. Letter from Ulbricht to Khrushchev, January 18, 1961; SED Archives, IfGA, ZPA, J IV, 2/202/129.

aThe booming economya: Hope M. Harrison, Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Sovieta”East German Relations. 1953a”1961. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, 163a”164; SAPMO-BArch, ZPA, J IV 2/202/129, January 18, 1961, aMglichkeiten des taktischen Vorgehens in der Frage Friedensvertrag und Westberlina and aMa.s.snahmeplan zu organisatorischen Fragen im Zusammenarbeit mit der Vorbereitung des Abschlusses eines Friedensvertrages mit der DDR und der Einberufung einer Friedenskonferenz,a English translation in Harrison, aUlbricht and the Concrete aRose,aa CWIHP Working Paper No. 5, Appendix B.

An East German worker: a West Berlin Shows Progress, Enjoys Best Year Since War,a New York Times, 01/10/1961; aGerman Reds Say Production Is Upa”but Reported Increase Falls Short of Plan; Lags Seen in Vital Industries,a New York Times, 01/10/1961.

Because of all that: Harrison, Driving the Soviets up the Wall, 150.

Ulbricht did not seek Khrushchevas: Donald S. Zagoria, The Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1956a”1961. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962,396.

Yuri Andropov: Harrison, Driving the Soviets up the Wall, 164a”165; Zagoria, The Sino-Soviet Conflict; Chen Jian, Maoas China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001; Vladislav M. Zubok, aaLook What Chaos in the Beautiful Socialist Camp!a: Deng Xiaoping and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1956a”1963,a CWIHP-B, No. 10 (1998), mended U.S. position.

Detractors said that Brentano: aGentleman in Politics: Heinrich von Brentano,a New York Times, 02/18/1961.

Rusk had supported: JFKL, POF, Memo, Visits of Chancellor Adenauer and Mayor Brandt, Confidential, February 21, 1961, Box 117, Countries. Germany-Security. Januarya”June 1961.

Kennedy rea.s.sured Brentano: Rolf Steininger, Der Mauerbau: Die Westmchte und Adenauer in der Berlinkriese 1958a”1963. Munich: Olzog, 2001, 168; FRUS, 1969a”1963, vol. XIV, Berlin Crisis, 1969a”1962, Doc. 5.

Brentano described to Kennedy: FRUS, 1969a”1963, vol. XIV, Doc. 5; JFKL, POF, Memo, Discussion with German Foreign Minister, February 15, 1961, Secret, Box 117, Countries. Germany-Security. Januarya”June 1961.

More often than not: Prittie, Konrad Adenauer, 255a”256; aWest Germany: In the Masteras Footsteps,a Time, 10/31/1960.

aaAn entirely abnormal situationaa: FRUS, 1969a”1963, vol. XIV, Berlin Crisis, 1969a”1962, Docs. 9a”31, Januarya”May 1961; Doc.u.ments on Germany, 1944a”1985, 723a”727; Doc.u.ments on International Affairs, 1961, 272a”277; Bundesministerium fr Innerdeutsche Beziehungen, ed., Dok.u.mente zur Deutschlandpolitik, IV. Reihe, Band 6, Erster Halbband, 1. Januara”30. Mai 1961, Frankfurt am Main, 1975, 345a”350. See also Aide-mmoire der Regierung der UdSSR an die Regierung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 17. Februar 1961: ).

7. SPRINGTIME FOR KHRUSHCHEV.

aWest Berlin is a bonea: FRUS, 1969a”1963, vol. XIV, Berlin Crisis, 1969a”1962, Doc. 8.

aIt seems more likelya: National Security Archive, Memo, Acheson to the President, April 3, 1961, aApril 1961 Folder,a Nuclear History Box 12.

The Soviet leaderas face: FRUS, 1969a”1963, vol. V, Soviet Union, Doc. 42; Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960a”1963. New York: HarperCollins, 1991, 80a”81; William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004, 489.

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