Berlin: Talking Talk

Amid the angry East-West din over Berlin, talk of negotiation was suddenly breaking out everywhere. "We are prepared for negotiations," insisted Nikita Khrushchev. The U.S. is "ready to discuss any proposal" to protect Berlin's rights, said President Kennedy. In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan came out in favor of "reasonable negotiation," was pushing hard behind the scenes for foreign ministers' talks some time in the fall.

Matter of Rights. What the two sides would talk about was not yet clear. Macmillan may have in mind some of the harmless concessions offered by the West at Geneva in 1959 (and since...

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