All the fears of what might happen in Berlin fizzled out on the rainy, flag-draped Unter den Linden (see INTERNATIONAL). The West had shown again that courage, calmness and determination could save Berlin.
This was only a skirmish without blood in a cold war without fighting. Had it also been only an alarm? The West might never know; it had no choice but to take such threats seriously. But perhaps even more important last week than the safety of Berlin was a new attitude in Washington towards the safety of all Western Europe. An important conversion had taken place in...
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