Ostensibly, the leaders of the eight Communist-bloc countries who held an "Eastern summit" in Moscow last week had gone to talk agriculture. But their final communique was all about Berlin. And it was tough. "If efforts directed at signing a peace treaty with both German states do not meet support" at the Big Four summit, it said, the Communist bloc would all sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and "on this basis solve the problem of West Berlin as well." Naturally, these sentiments were unanimously adopted.
But a few days later, noises began to be heard indicating that...
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